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Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?
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> Long term survival of a company *is* maximizing profits - and without
>some focus on the bottom line, investors withdrawal their money from the
>enterprise and...  No long term survival.
  Profitability is a constraint.  As long as it's satisfied, management,
employees, shareholders, community, etc can fight about the exact function
to be optimized.