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: 103376,3cd3b8571c28b75f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-26 14:16:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.nuthinbutnews.com!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!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: A Customer's Request For Open Source Software References: <3F44BC65.4020203@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:01:53 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1061931697 198.96.223.163 (Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:01:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:01:37 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41869 Date: 2003-08-26T17:01:53-04:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > >>Very good. Ada needs development resources. If enough people like >>yourself contribute the necessary components, we can start to >>play on a level playing field (application wise). For the moment, >>it is still an up hill battle, but I think we're slowly winning.. ;-) > > Yes, we must labour like Sisyphus :-) I'm not so sure I like that comparison :-/ (see graphic below) http://stripe.colorado.edu/~morristo/sisyphus.html -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg