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-Thread: 103376,e276c1ed16429c03 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!194.134.4.91.MISMATCH!news2.euro.net!news.mixmin.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!news.weisnix.org!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:37:02 +0200 From: Georg Bauhaus User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.11) Gecko/20101013 Thunderbird/3.1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular! References: <5086cc5e-cd51-4222-a977-06bdb4fb3430@u10g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <14fkqzngmbae6.zhgzct559yc.dlg@40tude.net> <8732ea65-1c69-4160-9792-698c5a2e8615@g13g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <4cc60705$0$23764$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4cc6753c$0$23756$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4cc71e08$0$23758$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4cc87d7a$0$23755$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4cc912e1$0$23761$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <19rlit851kct1$.db26uwez2yg7$.dlg@40tude.net> <4cc94547$0$23752$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4cc9bf12$0$23765$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <15lnc6vv8z3hc$.1oi6i03umest8$.dlg@40tude.net> <871v7aqcpq.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <13rgisoyxwkb2$.1dpflsd9zyiz5.dlg@40tude.net> In-Reply-To: <13rgisoyxwkb2$.1dpflsd9zyiz5.dlg@40tude.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <4cca091e$0$7655$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> Organization: Arcor NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Oct 2010 01:37:02 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: dc1734f3.newsspool1.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=hS21`@cfjlW<<0iRN7DLEQic==]BZ:af^4Fo<]lROoRQ<`=YMgDjhgRc1a@Zj3RPCY\c7>ejVXXdLGJfn3\J^@6fF5::V]QZ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:15890 Date: 2010-10-29T01:37:02+02:00 List-Id: On 10/28/10 11:19 PM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 22:33:37 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > You cannot be in control of everything. You have to outsource. (I'd guess that in the Ada business, outsourcing need is felt to be less pressing, if billion dollar organizations have deep pockets and/or "national interest"?) > The problem is that vendors have too > much power over customers. The only solution I see, is a law enforcing > liability to sold software. Open or free source will never solve it. + + + + + + + + Public Open Standards ! + + + + + + + + Standards (of the kind without patents on trivial algorithms subverting them) are an effective tool in the hands of customers preferring not to depend on a single solution. Standards leave a choice. Standard protocols, standard languages, standard file formats: if these are enforced in a market, they prevent entrepreneurial attempts at controlling the customers. If a producer wants to offer something in the market, it has to meet certain standards. For example, one market rule might require that it be possible to exchange basic text data between any smart phone and any content management system to be used by larger organizations. Or that it be possible to translate a standard Ada program with any Ada compiler. Then software makers will be able to choose a compiler, not be forced to use a specific one and depend on the whim of its producer. Then compiler makers will know there is a larger group of prospective customers all wanting the same standard Ada as a basis. Georg