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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,afb0cacfa5b1eece X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?QmrDtnJuIFBlcnNzb24=?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 'Gard' - Genuine Ada Relational Database, semi-proposal References: <87k6b3l386.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <87k6b3l386.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:32:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.250.106.90 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1141943527 83.250.106.90 (Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:32:07 CET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:32:07 CET Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3316 Date: 2006-03-09T22:32:07+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Björn Persson writes: >>This guy proposes some development projects to be placed on Souceforge >>and then suddenly he suggests keeping them secret and patenting them? >>I can hardly believe my eyes! > > Perhaps he's trying to see if anyone is interested. Obviously he's > never heard of Marius Amado Alves' Mneson[1], or Pascal Obry's > ADBM[2]. Of course, but that's not it. It's the combination of Sourceforge with NDAs and patents that amazes me. -- Björn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu