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: 2002-04-17 09:29:30 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!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: 17 Apr 2002 09:29:29 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204170829.23915c65@posting.google.com> References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019060970 4711 127.0.0.1 (17 Apr 2002 16:29:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 Apr 2002 16:29:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22662 Date: 2002-04-17T16:29:30+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message news:... > Ted Dennison wrote in message > >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. > > Couldn't have done that, because it would have left us nothing to > sell -- and thus we'd have been out of business in a hurry. (The ATIP-P > seed money also required a product to sell back to the government to > "recover" the investiment -- which couldn't have been done if there was > no product). We needed the GUI builder to be reasonable before we could > let go of the bindings. Fair enough. You folks certianly know way more about staying afloat as an Ada vendor than I can pretend to. However, I think its fair to say that no Windows bindings can have any hope of becomming the "standard" Ada Windows bindings so long as they are kept proprietary to one vendor, no matter how wonderful they (bindings and/or vendor) may be. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html