From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Niocl=C3=A1is=C3=ADn_C=C3=B3il=C3=ADn_de_Ghlost=C3=A9ir?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software on SpaceX / Blue Origin projects Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:12:22 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <40dd346b-184a-57b6-fefa-9aa765a785e9@irrt.De> References: <87mvp3ol3t.fsf@nightsong.com> <102cc3k$239l0$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="708268602-865436248-1749661945=:3168705" Injection-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 19:12:25 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="746483d8f86803395be414d96ec67ff2"; logging-data="2217025"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/0Ghu/GglkP7KpVQ8UKNvsJQmDcPTaLfMLzxVmpL9c/g==" Cancel-Lock: sha1:aZ+juXTVLvVGEMNEXbj7HAEV5gc= In-Reply-To: <102cc3k$239l0$1@dont-email.me> Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:66560 List-Id: This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --708268602-865436248-1749661945=:3168705 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Wed, 11 Jun 2025, Kevin Chadwick wrote: "[. . .] [. . .] I believe [. . .] won atleast one contract against [. . .] during an interim senators term who met with him when their application was awarded outstanding despite not meeting the level to qualify at all. [. . .] [. . .]" Cf. a statement which I wrote on LinkedIn on 26/05/2024: "[. . .] Let us remember that Nigel Head said =E2=80=9CThey fucked up.=E2=80=9D Let = us remember=20 that a lecturer in Sweden criticises you because you waste a hell of a=20 lot of taxes. Let us not forget that ESA spent circa the same amount of money on a=20 SINGLE INSTRUMENT as Sweden spent on an ENTIRE SATELLITE with a similar=20 instrument made by Omnisys. Let us also remember the Omnisys lecture where= =20 Omnisys mocked you by alleging that UK; German; and French firms made=20 tenders and ESA=E2=80=99s georeturn policy let the only tender which failed= the=20 mass budget (by 5 kg!) win. =E2=80=9COf course the=E2=80=9D lucky country w= on, said this=20 lecturer. [. . .]" P.S. A URL for the press release about Serco that I quoted is HTTPS://WWW.Gov.UK/government/news/taxpayer-compensated-for-overcharging-as= -cross-government-contracts-review-concludes --708268602-865436248-1749661945=:3168705--