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,c6c96fe0302f04f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-16 09:24:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!66.150.105.36.MISMATCH!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!feed.cgocable.net!read1.cgocable.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3D5D272A.6010408@cogeco.ca> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020618 Netscape/7.0b1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if.. References: <3d5ce7f0.12192351@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:24:10 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.150.168.167 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cogeco.ca X-Trace: read1.cgocable.net 1029515244 24.150.168.167 (Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:27:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:27:24 EDT Organization: Cogeco Cable Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28122 Date: 2002-08-16T12:24:10-04:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen wrote: > In article , Preben Randhol writes: >>Say you want Debian GNU/Linux you can buy it as a CD and with printed >>Manual from a shop, but there is no other warrenties from that you > > There is the assurance of a transmission medium with better quality > control and not subject to the great bulk of computer crackers out > there. But "FlybyNight Co" could be set up to sell you CD-ROM releases. Then how do you know they didn't just download it from the net and then burned you a CD? Chances are, that is precisely what they did! ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg