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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 10:09:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!wn14feed!wn13feed!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <3F3A33EE.90900@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3A33EE.90900@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:54:21 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1060793647 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:54:07 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:54:07 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41402 Date: 2003-08-13T12:54:21-04:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: ... > I think it would be more productive to look at what made Micro$oft a > success and learn their strengths and weaknesses if your aim is to kill > Micro$oft. If you really want them to go away, you'll have to become a > good, skilled, knowledgable capitalist to do it. GPL won't kill > Micro$oft. They'll adapt. Thats what businessmen do. You can't stop the > game - just change the rules. > > MDC Their success? M O N O P O L Y -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg