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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb0cacfa5b1eece X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 15:29:18 -0600 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Gard' - Genuine Ada Relational Database, semi-proposal References: Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:26:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87k6b3l386.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Roy7X5TYZmJ6Mf7ZRex8REc1ikw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.240.103 X-Trace: sv3-jLvhWOaZ32+ahBzDpsc+YQQoBv3F8XUQm360BFvQ3gYsxdvcsr8D2zM6nTyHKXZRew8JOzwlKlr5HfC!RlQKb5BlJqUQ5smz7Cr100XdhAN53CHncE9m6PkLKcWar7RfTTjq+4tTt2aOP0/QHnUdHy78nt0= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3315 Date: 2006-03-09T22:26:01+01:00 List-Id: Björn Persson writes: > Wa Benzi wrote: >> Why not put them onto sourceforge? > [...] >> You might wish to consider making these discussions private, under >> an NDA, there might be some useful patents or papers as a spin-off. > > This guy proposes some development projects to be placed on Souceforge > and then suddenly he suggests keeping them secret and patenting them? > I can hardly believe my eyes! Perhaps he's trying to see if anyone is interested. Obviously he's never heard of Marius Amado Alves' Mneson[1], or Pascal Obry's ADBM[2]. [1] http://www.liacc.up.pt/~maa/mneson/ [2] http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry/contrib.html -- Ludovic Brenta.