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: 103376,9d70c5e1cc65f16b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Adding Ada/Gnat on the Open Source Poster. Date: 1999/03/03 Message-ID: <7bjndb$8ve$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450781333 References: <7biea7$peu@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x6.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Mar 03 16:19:01 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-03-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own