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From: "Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability)
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 09:46:28 -0400
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Wellllll....... You *might* pay to get a custom library built rather than
shop for an off-the-shelf part. Sometimes you have a problem domain for
which no suitable library exists or there are licensing issues, etc. But the
one thing you can count on here is that any (non-brain-dead) businessman is
*not* going to pay "Ada Library Writers Inc." the full development cost,
plus profit and not walk away with 100% ownership of the end product.

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"Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen" <ohk@clustra.com> wrote in message
news:umqr8umyhp0.fsf@maestro.clustra.com...
> Larry Elmore <ljelmore@home.com> writes:
>
> But he's not an investor, he's potential customer in the mass
> market. There is a difference you know, and compilers and libraries
> are commodities these days, not custom-made.
>