Re: Fed OOPS ... OOPS! We forgot to include Ada!

[harryr@ssd.fsi.com (Harry Rockefeller)]

In article <3l5655$4qk@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Dale Stanbrough <dale@rmit.edu.au> writes:

   Organization: RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

   In article <3l3dgc$4gi@stout.entertain.com> Colin James III,
   cjames@stout.entertain.com writes:
   >>Greg Aharonian writes:

   >>   Coming from someone who has received millions of dollars from the DoD
   >>for GNAT, the results of which you are now using to launch a business,
   >>your hypocrisy shows once again.
   >>
   >>Get the DoD to stake me the same amount of money, and then let see who
   >>can do the most to benefit Ada.  But as one of the troughers, stick to
   >>troughing.

   As someone involved in getting Ada introduced to a course, I can assure
   you
   that the availability of Gnat Ada has helped a lot. The students also
   appreciate
   its availability and pricing :-).

An Australian as well as U.S. student would enjoy the *pricing*.
This is because this price is not the cost.  U.S. taxpayers are footing
most of the bill.  The rest is deferred to future U.S, taxpayers.  I
can't really blame you for missing Greg's point.  I too was happy to
get government help to put me through college.  But now that I work
for a not-dependent-on-gov't-money profitable business and have
children of my own I find I have clearer thinking.

upper class => future oriented

P.S. Isn't the smiley supposed to look like (-: from your side of the
world? ;-)
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