Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux

[Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <8gq6r9$un$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <gj_X4.2373$s64.80377@news.flash.net>,
>   "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote:
> > Lockheed Martin, please. The distinction is subtle but
> > important.
>
> Indeed! Sorry for the excessive abbreviation in my post

For some reason, those who came up from the Martin Marietta side of
thengs tend to get touchy about that. Since I came from GE Aerospace
portion of Martin, I never really cared. Silly as it sounds, inside
the company they still keep track of who came from where. So
to an insider "Lockheed" is short for "Lockheed heritage", and means "an
LMC organization that used to be part of Lockheed". But to the rest of
the world, its about as silly as GNU/Linux. :-)

As for getting a bean-counter from LMC to understand anything that isn't
along their well-trod path, I sympathise completely. Trying to introduce
thought into a process that runs on the orderly flow of forms from one
desk to another is an uphill battle.

Plese don't confuse anyone here with a LMC paper-pusher though. Perhaps
Tom hasn't fully grokked the GPL, but that doesn't put him in their
league!

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