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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-12 05:54:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <58j8b.6321$k81.601772@news20.bellglobal.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:39:43 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1063370369 198.96.223.163 (Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:39:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:39:29 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42411 Date: 2003-09-12T08:39:43-04:00 List-Id: Alexander Kopilovitch wrote: > "Warren W. Gay wrote: ... > But don't worry too much, because there is another effect also: > when a competitor, which uses this tactics extensively, approaches > the leader (that is, the distance to the leader becomes relatively > small) then the competitor loses perspective, and starts to experience > severe burdens, for which he is not prepared. As a consequence his > behaviour becomes essentially random, self-contradictory, and overall > stupid. The probable finale of that behaviour is a crash, ... So is this your prediction for Linux, as it approaches M$? ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg