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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@gnat.com Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/05 Message-ID: <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441110814 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36ba730b.35540068@news.pacbell.net> <79eq4l$m1a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 05 21:06:17 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net>, tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: > As Larry points out, reading and feeling comfortable > with, or having your lawyer read and agree to, someone's > idiosyncratic restrictions on their "free" software is > often harder than reinvention. A good argument for *not* inventing idiosyncratic restrictions, but rather using standard documents like the (at this stage) very well understood GPL. We often find sales people for other companies trying to "scare" people into being worried about open source software, but in these days of Linux and the open source movement gathering real momentum, such tactics do not seem to be successful in practice, and we have not run into any situation where people were worried about the use of open source software where a short conversation and interchange of information did not entirely calm any concerns. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own