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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
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Subject: Re: www.adahome.com?...
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:12:18 GMT
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In article <005501c07108$050589e0$0202a8c0@dbdell2000>,
  comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org wrote:
> AdaHome is not maintained even if there is claims that it is. E-mails
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com>
>
> > Incorrect.  The Ada Home is still being maintained.
> >
> > Unfortunately, it is difficult to find people who work for free year
> > after year, even to expand and improve a popular Web site.

Well, again this was a post Magnus made slightly over two years ago, not
one I made today. Even back then, I think the claim was demonstrably false.

The second paragraph is false too. I personally *had* offered to help
maintain it for free, if he'd just give me access. I wouldn't have been
capable of taking it over, but I could have at least fixed any broken
links that annoyed me.

I included the posting because of the passage that implied (very roughly
paraphprasing) that now that his DoD sugar-daddy was gone, he couldn't
afford to do it any more.

I don't want to get out of hand Magnus-bashing here. His site did a
great deal for the Ada community for quite a few years. People's
interests can change over time; there's nothing sinister about that. But
I think this should be a valuable lesson to us all on the evils of
restrctively licensing generally-useful information.

--
T.E.D.

http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html


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