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,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-21 15:03:37 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsxfer.eecs.umich.edu!news.bu.edu!acs5.bu.edu!ddutheza From: Didier Utheza Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:03:31 -0400 Organization: Boston University Message-ID: References: <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> <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ltoi7$4is$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B82789B.8D195045@home.com> <9ltuo8$70n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B829450.879B0396@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: news3.bu.edu 998431415 4255 128.197.153.50 (21 Aug 2001 22:03:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bu.edu In-Reply-To: <3B829450.879B0396@home.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12198 Date: 2001-08-21T18:03:31-04:00 List-Id: I thonk there is a misunderstanding about the benefit of the project. The system is under GPL. No direct profit is supposed to be gain from the OS. I think that if you put money, that means somebody will have to do it. In consequence this somebody has some right (even if he says no) on the way the project will evolve. The explosion of Linux was due to the fact that it was free (free source and 0 kopecks - and this is important: a lot of programmers went into the project as an hobby and since the kernel of the project was stirred by Linus, it got somewhere. Now about the GNU fundation and the Linux project: it is the story of the chicken and the egg. The GNU developed the essential tools to give some decent clothes to the kernel and the kernel gave a body to the clothes. One needed the other). To come back to AdaOS as was said before, the OS has to be developed now with the tools that are available: GNAT is perfect for that since at the end it will generate the necessary code. In parallel to the OS, a C independent compiler (a native compiler as it is Nick's main project) can be developed and gradually tested on the emerging OS. Both projects are paramount and as the gcc story showed, if one develops without the other (at the same time), one of them will go to oblivion (until some years later, a guy comes with a kernel that it wrote as an hobby). Now, all this talk is nice, but it does not involved many people from the AdaOS project???? Since the Ada list is also the list for the project, I wonder if it just going to die. Another possibility is that they are writting some code and don't want to be bother as long as nothing useable has been written (it is a dream, but it is a good one). Didier Utheza.