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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 07:45:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 15 Apr 2002 07:45:13 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1018881913 11072 127.0.0.1 (15 Apr 2002 14:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Apr 2002 14:45:13 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22550 Date: 2002-04-15T14:45:13+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > As Randy Brukardt noted the other day, the original idea for Claw "was to > create a de facto standard, make a subset freely available, and eventually > put the binding into the public domain to be a standard." But it didn't > happen. Recently someone complained that Claw didn't currently support > several features he needs. Nobody, to my knowledge, has added support for > X to Claw, but multiple people have created alternative Windows bindings, > none of which has become a standard, and none of which supports the I would submit that this is because the "release it to the public domain" step was never followed through on. If they had done that first, instead of planning on doing it last, things might have been different. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html