Re: Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community

[dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison)]

tony <tonygair@btinternet.com> wrote in message news:<3CB61A78.271280C1@btinternet.com>...
> I was a student in 1987 when there was no ada open source.
> 
> Open source with Ada however is a mixing of both write once and use
> around the world components.
> 
> The amount of ada software now being produced open source amongst a
> community with no set objectives, no set one way of thinking, no hidden
> agenda, no management I think is astounding.
> 
> Doomed to the horse calvalry is just a bad analogy I think because,
> Ada is doing very well in the open source community (against all odds)
> which is the true test. 

Hear, Hear!

> The true test of technology is in the open source community and not in
> the temporary distraction of the US military which appears to define the
> success of its technology in how many third world people you can murder
> or subjugate by pressing or not pressing a button.

(sits back down) Errr...no. This argument is the moral equivalent of
someone saying that all Palestinians are heartless murdering
terrorists or all Jews are .... (on second though, I don't even want
to go into this).

I'm not saying that if you had toned this statement back a bit, you
wouldn't have had half a point. But, there is way too much hatred,
half-truths, and willful ignorance in the world already. If we truly
care about peace, we need to be trying with all our might right now to
fight it, not spread more of it.

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