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 20:30:35 PST Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:09:34 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020314 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if... References: <3d5ce7f0.12192351@news.demon.co.uk> <3d5cfa8e.16958234@news.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: mlk-172-61.tm.net.my X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mlk-172-61.tm.net.my Message-ID: <3d5dc21d_2@news.tm.net.my> X-Trace: news.tm.net.my 1029554717 mlk-172-61.tm.net.my (17 Aug 2002 11:25:17 +0800) Organization: TMnet Malaysia Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news1.tm.net.my Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28147 Date: 2002-08-17T12:09:34+08:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:17:31 GMT, John McCabe wrote: > >>Oh yes! That's right. But where can you buy e.g. GNAT (public) on a CD >>in a box with a printed manual? >> > > Hmm, perhaps I should make a small company ;-) > Small is not good enough. Even smaller - one-man company and you are the boss! No one will complain when the boss spend the money unless you are complaining and stingy. > >>If you go to your [large] company's accountat and say "there you go, >>I've spent $1000 on software" and they say, "well, where is it?" and >>you say "it's a file on my PC" what do you think they're going to say >>to that? >> > > Well if you download GNAT (Public) or some other program then you say > "I've spent $0 on software" and the accountant will smile from ear to > ear and get big dewy dollar symbols in his eyes whilst drooling. ;-) > > If one is expected to pay for the program, then of course I also would > like to have a printed manual and a CD-ROM. Unless it is support you pay > for. > > Preben Randhol > -- type Dmitry is new Adrian; -- Adrian Hoe -- http://adrianhoe.com -- Remove *nospam* to email