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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-08 00:45:53 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!proxad.net!feeder2-1.proxad.net!nnrp4.proxad.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "nicolas" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <9jrt62$38t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B619A6D.5DD6E782@home.com> <3B6636BA.96FD8348@home.com> <9kb3ub$hdo$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kchn1$lng$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kea9a$lsc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9keduf$qvc$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9kelv1$riq$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <9klokd0nif@drn.newsguy.com> <3B706ADC.B4847AC3@home.com> <9kprk1$pof$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:45:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.101.131.241 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp4.proxad.net 997256752 195.101.131.241 (Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:45:52 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:45:52 CEST Organization: Guest of ProXad - France Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11584 Date: 2001-08-08T07:45:52+00:00 List-Id: Thanks, actually, your replies are better than mines :-) "Marin David Condic" a �crit dans le message news: 9kprk1$pof$1@nh.pace.co.uk... > > "Larry Elmore" wrote in message > news:3B706ADC.B4847AC3@home.com... > > nicolas wrote: > > > > > You don't pay to build the factory, the company invest a lot, and can > count > > > on an income only if the result is good. > > > > You _don't_??!! _WHO DOES_, then, if not the customer? > > > Eventually, the customer pays. But that's a lot different than asking the > customer to fund the development cost up-front. That's what the venture > capitalist or entrepeneur is supposed to do. > > I think you are misinterpreting the intention here. I believe the point was > about asking the customer to just simply pay some cost-plus development > money in order to get a library. That is definitely not the same sort of > thing as eventually paying off a business's asset acquisition by repeated > sales of a product. > > IOW: You go build it - if I like it and find it worth the price you charge, > I buy it. It isn't usually done in the other order - unless you're the > government! :-) > > > > I'd really like to see you in a TV store :-) > > > "Stephen, give me money now, I'm going to develop a great TV set, build > a > > > factory, and I promise you will have a great TV set within a few years > ..." > > > > Duh... What do you think investors do every day? How in the world do you > > think the vast majority of companies got started in the first place? > > Government mandate, or magic? > > > A bit unfair. An investor is not the same thing as a customer. > > -- > Marin David Condic > Senior Software Engineer > Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com > Enabling the digital revolution > e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com > Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > >