From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,345c9fcf5a67a99f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-25 07:26:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.net!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CEF9F06.2050109@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft takes on ACT References: <4519e058.0205230724.38617c60@posting.google.com> <3CEE40A9.4010500@telepath.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 14:26:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1022336765 68.12.51.201 (Sat, 25 May 2002 10:26:05 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 10:26:05 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24755 Date: 2002-05-25T14:26:05+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Any user can have the full rights to any software they want. All it takes is > a willingness to write up a cost-plus contract. :-) I don't know if the DoD > gets full data rights - clout or not - for things they buy off the shelf. No they don't. That's one of the contaversies about their going to COTS software. (At least it was 5 years ago when I last went through this).