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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-01 12:40:20 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Robert Dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 20:25:11 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92qp32$eul$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <92qi97$9pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jan 01 20:25:11 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; U) X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x73.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3521 Date: 2001-01-01T20:25:11+00:00 List-Id: In article <92qi97$9pc$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison wrote: > You would be referring to AdaOS ( http://www.adaos.org ). If > they ever get started, I don't see why it would be any less > viable than Hurd. The FSF is just a tax-deductable umbrella > group. An odd and wrong claim! The FSF definitely develops software, and has hired people over the years as software engineers (and of course RMS himself is a software developer -- he would be happy to subsitute the term hacker). Most (nearly all) the work on HURD has been done by the FSF, which is far more than just an umbrella group. Ted, where *do* you get your (mis)information from? :-) Robert Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/