Re: Adding Ada/Gnat on the Open Source Poster.

[dennison@telepath.com]

In article <7biea7$peu@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nabbasi@pacbell.net wrote:
> Today at Linux week, there was a group making a large poster showing
> the history of Open Source, called "The Evolution of Software". The poster
> is not done, but will be soon. They did not have GNAT in there (even though
> they should C++, gcc, Even Java. I argued with the person there to also add
> GNAT.

On a related note, the OpenSource homepage ( http://www.opensoruce.org ) has
two areas of concern.

First, the "software that qualifies" page (
http://www.opensource.org/products.html ) that proports to contain a listing
of vendors selling open-source-based solutions contains the likes of Cygnus
and several smaller companies, but does not have ACT. I sent an email to the
"tell us" link with a little blurb about ACT and the URL of their website a
couple of weeks ago, but they are still not listed. A note from someone
better equipped to sell ACT (eg: The president? :-) ) might sway ESR to list
them. The purpose seems to be to show how "big time" OpenSource is, so I'd
think a small listing of ACT's Fortune 100 customers might do the trick.

Second, they are currently in the process of picking an official Open-Source
logo (URL: http://www.lerdorf.on.ca/os/ ). This will be a logo that anyone
developing OSS can put on their website or product to identify its Open Source
nature. A rather depressing amount of the candidates contain C/Java syntax
(mosly curly-braces). There is a forum there where you can publicly state your
opinion (you won't get a vote, but you may influence someone who does). Folks
who have actually authored Open Source software would be the most effective
voices there.

T.E.D.

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