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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-12 18:04:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!aanews.merit.edu!gumby.it.wmich.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <78g_a.4373$UB4.3323@nwrdny01.gnilink.net> Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 01:04:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.152.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1060736643 162.84.152.33 (Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:04:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:04:03 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41360 Date: 2003-08-13T01:04:03+00:00 List-Id: Luke A. Guest wrote: > Open source software only happened because of companies like M$ stealing > all of the market with shoddy software and not letting anyone else get any > way in unless you work for them. It happened because Richard Stallman wanted to change a printer driver and couldn't. MS software isn't at all shoddy. It's just that certain people are tinkerers, and get frustrated when they can't.