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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: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 13:34:52 -0400
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That is at least one alternative. It kind of seems a little like begging.
"Please won't you donate to our out-of-work Ada programmers fund so we can
keep these poor kids off the streets and out of delinquency..." (Midnight
Programming, anybody?)

But as a kind of market research tool, it might be useful. If there were
some requirements spec sitting there that potential buyers could look over
and fill in a market response card (Would you buy this product for $1000 if
it were available today?) It would give you some idea as to where you could
hawk your wares and for how much if/when you completed the project.

MDC
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Marin David Condic
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"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
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>
> This morning, having tee, a button crossed my mind, to be
> found on adapower, above it some text asking visitors to say
> whether they want to contribute money to some library project
> described there :-) Somwhat like IBM did with some Java
> product, I don't remember exactly which one, asking people to
> confirm willingness bo actually buy.