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: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-23 06:18:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-09!supernews.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3F4769A7.6020503@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> <3F460D73.7090801@noplace.com> <20030822153839.5ec5c918.david@realityrift.com> <20030822184004.7e8c53bf.david@realityrift.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 13:18:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.25.246 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1061644719 209.165.25.246 (Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:18:39 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 06:18:39 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41818 Date: 2003-08-23T13:18:39+00:00 List-Id: Absolutely. Volunteer projects will move very slowly and will likely not be nearly as spiffy as something you can buy off the shelf in a shrink-wrap box. (Like Quicken or other commercial products) They are also far more likely to appear "organically grown" than "designed". All of which is an incentive to go use what you can purchase commercially rather than wait for some volunteer freeware to show up. Or, one could imagine that there is a good commercial potential here and figure out if its worth doing as a business venture. It would potentially produce jobs programming in Ada and profits for the people who put in the sweat equity of developing the initial software. It would almost certainly get done sooner and with a more "professional" look if a team of for-profit minded developers were working on it. MDC David Holm wrote: > The problem is that when you are forced to pay for something you expect much more out of it than > you normally would. If it's an opensource development that is carried out in peoples free time > then you can not expect the same things to happen in the same timeframe as you would for a > commercial application. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jast.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "In general the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to the other." -- Voltaire ======================================================================