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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 107f24,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid107f24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,582dff0b3f065a52 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 10:34:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.bc.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.functional Subject: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Code distributed denial of service attack. References: <3b690498.1111845720@news.worldonline.nl> <9kbu15$9bj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3b6a453c.1193942215@news.worldonline.nl> <9keejl$fhj@augusta.math.psu.edu> <3c30da40.0108060848.796d9bd9@posting.google.com> <6ejmk9.f11.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal> Organization: Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous Reply-To: kaz@ashi.footprints.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 17:34:40 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.68.85.82 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.bc.home.com 997119280 24.68.85.82 (Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:34:40 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:34:40 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11402 comp.lang.c:72512 comp.lang.c++:80387 comp.lang.functional:7357 Date: 2001-08-06T17:34:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <6ejmk9.f11.ln@gargamel.hqd-internal>, Gerhard H�ring wrote: >On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 16:56:23 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol wrote: >>Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/ > >How can a *language* be free? An implementation, yes. A language, not in any >way I could imagine. I can imagine a few ways. For instance, you can be free to implement the language and base the name of your implementation on the name of that language, without bringing a trademark infringement lawsuit on yourself. It can be free in the sense that you can obtain a freely distributed document that specifies it.