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-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <3a96f.148768$dP1.506336@newsc.telia.net> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:01:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1129914111 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:01:51 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:01:51 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5859 Date: 2005-10-21T17:01:51+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: > The economists point out that to the extent programs are "public goods" > the market will undersupply them, leaving it to government or other > organizations not guided by the market to pay programmers. So 5 to 100 > years from now programmers will be employees of government or other large > institutions/organizations? What definition of "organization" are you using if you can say that Red Hat is a large organization but Microsoft isn't? -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu