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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-20 07:35:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!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: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 10:24:45 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <9l6pdo$rlo$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998317486 5683 136.170.200.133 (20 Aug 2001 14:24:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Aug 2001 14:24:46 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:12127 Date: 2001-08-20T14:24:46+00:00 List-Id: Well, I suppose they can get as snitty as they like - as is often said in business "Money talks - Bulls**t Walks." In the end, nobody will care what the name of it is. The guy that wins is the one with a working OS that can actually be acquired in some reasonable manner and does something useful. How many different coloquialisms are there for exactly this situation? "If you can't run with the big dogs, stay up on the porch". "That dog don't hunt!" There's "Players" and "Player Haters". The situation must be pretty common since we have so many ways of describing it. :-) I was once on a very large project that was a long time in development with no visible results to the end-user community. We had the "Official Project X Joke": A lady tells her analyst that she's been married three times and that she's still a virgin. The analyst asks her to explain. "My first husband was impotent, so he couldn't. My second husband was gay, so he wouldn't. My third husband worked on 'Project X' so he'd just lie there and tell me how great it was going to be one day." 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/ > > However, it *is* that OS. The name of the *kernel* has changed several times (I > think originally it was going to be "Alix", after an old girlfriend of RMS's), > but the overall OS was always going to be called GNU. That is why they get so > snitty about referring to Linux as "GNU/Linux". In their minds the OS is GNU, > and Linux (or Hurd) is just the kernel. > >