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Mark Thornton wrote:
> "Kent Paul Dolan" <xanthian@well.com> wrote in message
> news:a3eaa964.0302261422.4d166fa1@posting.google.com...
> 
>>If the Ada mandate hadn't been dropped, the rebellion would
>>have to have been treated as what it was.  The DoD chose to
>>cave rather than apply military standards to a military
>>discipline problem.
> 
> 
> Surely most of the programmers and management involved would have been
> civilians with whom a military approach to discipline would have been
> ineffective.
> 
> Mark Thornton
> 
> 

... unless of course they wanted to be paid.