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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4eb65fab6deaa097 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.) Date: 2000/04/29 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 617088271 References: <87aeidsgr8.fsf@think.mihalis.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: news.pacbell.net 956988648 206.170.2.28 (Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:10:48 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 23:10:48 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-04-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >convey what I was actually trying to say to anyone on this thread I'm You were saying there is no technical reason ACT couldn't post a file with a secure signature on cs.nyu.edu, right? Why they would want to go to the extra trouble, just to aid the competition (the public version being a competitor to the supported version), is not obvious. You or I could simply announce "I've checked the version at cs.nyu.edu and it's correct" but would anybody to whom that's really important consider that statement credible? Would you, or anyone, volunteer, for free, to be on the receiving end of potential lawsuits if the version somehow wasn't correct? Of people downloading the $0 version, I suspect many have a version of Netscape or IE or ftp, and a version of pkzip or winzip, downloaded for free and of equally uncertain pedigree. What good would a certified version at cs.nyu.edu do if it's potentially corrupted once it's on your machine and unpacked?