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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-09 13:19:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!bigfeed2.bellsouth.net!news.bellsouth.net!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4077055C.8090500@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: No call for Ada References: <20040409115529.8C0D24C412B@lovelace.ada-france.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 20:19:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.25.210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1081541999 209.165.25.210 (Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:19:59 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:19:59 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6924 Date: 2004-04-09T20:19:59+00:00 List-Id: Andrew Carroll wrote: > > I don't know where you sent your email from (where your office is) but if it > isn't in Colorado then I'm guessing I would be missing the meetings. Not > that I was invited. > Its at least a potential resource if face-to-face sessions were necessary from time to time. I doubt I could find a dozen or so Ada advocates in Palm Beach County, FL interested in working a project like this - but I bet come February, any given team would *love* to come here for a few sessions. :-) > > Considering all the pieces are already out there it is a highly achievable > goal. All that really needs to be done is to have an "install" or "setup" > program to install the existing components. I personally don't think > it would be such a bad idea to go through the existing components > and organize them/integrate them into one directory tree instead of > trying to work with the existing component directory layouts from > each individual component. > Its more than that. You can't just pile stuff onto a disk with an install shield and expect it to somehow be "good" - much less exciting enough to draw interest from the non-Ada crowd. It would need a) really nice integration of all the tools and b) a bunch of "leverage" you don't get right now. > Who says we can't sell the final product? As long as the source code > is freely available. Look at RedHat Linux or FreeBSD. They get from > $75 to ~$200 per box set. Assuming of course that the license is the same. > Who's going to fund it initially? Well I will, if $1.92 will cut it. > Sure. But one way or another, if you don't get some kind of revenue from somewhere, nobody has this as a "job" - just a hobby. Hobby stuff takes forever to emerge and won't have the kind of commercial support & quality one expects from similar products. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================