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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,23963231b5359f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-14 07:40:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!portc01.blue.aol.com!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada Developer's Cooperative License (was) Re: Market pressures for more reliable software Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 10:15:43 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9gaguh$mfn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 992528145 23031 136.170.200.133 (14 Jun 2001 14:15:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jun 2001 14:15:45 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8727 Date: 2001-06-14T14:15:45+00:00 List-Id: Well, I'm grateful to you for sending me a copy of the license. I'm not sure I understand it thoroughly or how the mechanics of it would work, but I like the notion of being able to put software out for public consumption and saying "Go ahead and use this freely - but if it starts to make a buck, give me my cut..." Determining what the cut should be and how it is distributed is unclear to me - but I think it would be attractive to offer developers a piece of the action. I'd like to hear from people interested in this - maybe there is some way to get such a cooperative off the ground rather than just talk about it? (Lots of us have made software available on the web - maybe we can figure out a way to make it generate some $$$?) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." wrote in message news:mailman.992495488.13975.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > From: Bob Leif > To: Marin David Condic et al. > > Thank you for your kind words on the Ada Developer's Cooperative License. > Since you mentioned "or similar", I always have stated that what I wrote was > a draft. I would be gratified if others would enhance it. > > I should explain that since a good part of my training is in biology, I > tried to create a system that would benefit from Darwinian selection or in > engineering terms feedback. Evolving a system with good feedback is an > excellent way to optimize. The combination of ASIS and the Ada package > structure offers the possibility of creating a market economy for software. > Or reverting to my biological training, we Ada mammals can destroy the > present software dinosaurs. We can develop a very low overhead distributed, > profitable, equitable software development system. >