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From: Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:00:52 -0700
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"Robert C. Leif" wrote:

> From: Bob Leif
> To: Richard Riehle et al.
> Firstly, I do not have any information to argue with you about
> "Microsoft seized an opportunity by deceiving a friend, Tim Patterson,
> and through a series of evil deeds that no one in the technological part
> of our industry admires."

Off topic.

Good source:   "Fire in the Valley" by Michael Swain.    It documents
the personal computer industry in some detail, and with a healthy
irreverence for some of our best known personalities.    His views
on Mr. William Gates are amusing, depressing, and guaranteed
to disillusion anyone who mistakes Mr. Gates for the technological
whiz-kid so often portrayed as larger than life in the popular media.
At least that is how I read Swain's work.  Someone else might read
it differently.

George Carlin once said, "The caterpillar does all the work and
the butterfly gets all the publicity."  There are people in our industry
who really do make innovative contributions without appropriating
the ideas of others.   They quietly go about their daily lives creating
new ideas only to have those ideas promoted by someone else.  There
seem to be more butterflies than caterpillars in the software industry.

Richard Riehle