comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: system@niuhep.physics.niu.edu
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/23
Date: 1998-10-23T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <70q95g$f09$1@husk.cso.niu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87soglbhwu.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com



-- 
Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA  93556-1412
Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>      Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO                             Fax: (760) 499-9152
My PGP fingerprint: 15 6E C7 91 5F AF 17 C4  24 93 CB 6B EB 38 B5 E5


Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:
>Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:
>> dewarr@my-dejanews.com writes:
>> >Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes

>> > >Oh yeah?  Just try to talk Dewar out of 3.11b without crossing his
>> > >palm with some cash...  He's even threatened to consider not doing
>> > >business with any one who starts giving out wavefront ("non-p")
>> > >releases

>> > We certainly have never "threatened to consider not doing
>> > business with any one who starts giving out wavefront". That is
>> > pure fantasy on the part of Ronald Cole.
>> 
>> It's certinly ironic that the post you claim is "pure fantasy" is
>> archived at dejanews...  Took me all of 5 minutes to find, too.

Do tell?

>Go to "power search".  Select "English" for the Language,
>"comp.lang.ada" as the Forum, "dewar" for the Author, and "May 1 1997"
>for the Date.  Then "wavefront" for Power Search and click on "Find".
>The first article found says:
>
>  "If people started distributing wavefront versions freely, then w[e]
>  would probably reluctantly decide to stop making them available,
>  since it would be clear that their distribution was harmful. That
>  would be too bad for the cases where they really solve a problem. ...

Not there

>  "So if we did decide to curtail the distribution of wavefront
>  release because of problems with uncontrolled releases, then this
>  would be nothing like "refusing to do business with people" or
>  anything like that. it would just be a matter of balancing the needs
>  of customers in certain situations with other needs, something we
>  have to do all the time."

And not there

In other words Dewar has never "threatened to consider not doing
business with any one who starts giving out wavefront [] releases"

Morphis@physics.niu.edu
Real Women change tires			abuse@uu.net postmaster@uu.net
Real Men change diapers                 security@uu.net




  parent reply	other threads:[~1998-10-23  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-10-10  0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love 
1998-10-11  0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12  0:00   ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14  0:00     ` geertbosch
1998-10-14  0:00     ` dewar
1998-10-15  0:00       ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16  0:00       ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16  0:00         ` dennison
1998-10-16  0:00           ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16  0:00             ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17  0:00               ` dewarr
1998-10-18  0:00                 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19  0:00                     ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18  0:00                       ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19  0:00                         ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00                           ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19  0:00                       ` dewar
1998-10-23  0:00                         ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25  0:00                           ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00                       ` dewar
1998-10-18  0:00                   ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19  0:00                     ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00                     ` dewar
1998-10-21  0:00                       ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-17  0:00             ` dewarr
1998-10-17  0:00               ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18  0:00                 ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00                   ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19  0:00                     ` dewar
1998-10-18  0:00               ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19  0:00                 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19  0:00                   ` dewarr
1998-10-19  0:00                 ` dewarr
1998-10-21  0:00                   ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-23  0:00                 ` system [this message]
1998-10-17  0:00             ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18  0:00               ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19  0:00                 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20  0:00                   ` dennison
1998-10-18  0:00               ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-16  0:00           ` dewar
1998-10-16  0:00         ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16  0:00           ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16  0:00             ` dewar
1998-10-19  0:00               ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19  0:00                 ` dewar
1999-02-13  0:00             ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16  0:00         ` dewar
1998-10-17  0:00         ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17  0:00           ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-11  0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13  0:00   ` Robert B. Love 
1998-10-11  0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11  0:00   ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12  0:00     ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12  0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12  0:00   ` Dave Wood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-10-22  0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox