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: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-18 14:43:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Paranoia about .NET (still): Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: 18 Apr 2002 14:43:21 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0204181343.26a4d89f@posting.google.com> References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204121930.64733eeb@posting.google.com> <5wTt8.15598$C21.3515342@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <5ee5b646.0204130620.114953ae@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204180615.150e4bef@posting.google.com> <357f0f4aab2ac8ef39234c96f0ab6311.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1019166201 29354 127.0.0.1 (18 Apr 2002 21:43:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Apr 2002 21:43:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22755 misc.misc:6622 Date: 2002-04-18T21:43:21+00:00 List-Id: "Kent Paul Dolan" wrote in message news:<357f0f4aab2ac8ef39234c96f0ab6311.48257@mygate.mailgate.org>... > the market of "things needed to run applications". Microsoft as a > corporate entity and an untrammeled monopoly feels very _threatened_ by > the very _concept_ of OS independent programming languages; that's why > there's a big compiler creating effort inside Microsoft. ...unless they own that language-independant platform too. :-)