From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 18 Jun 93 03:02:02 GMT From: world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Defending Greg Message-ID: List-Id: >From: James Hopper >Organization: SAIC > >I know that when his posts devolve into rants (especially >when he identifies with ted holden) make me very learly of >using his reuse service. But I can take all that much better James, You make an idle promise. In the last three years, I have been approached four times by people from SAIC around the country asking for my help in locating reusable Ada packages for their projects. Each time, after some personal expense in assembling the information, I was told that SAIC didn't want to spend the money for the charges I would have to incur in supplying the reusable Ada code. I finally contacted a friend who is a secior researcher at one of your California facilities who told me, like that of most other Defense contractors, that use of consultants at any cost and even where there was a clear cost benefit, was frowned upon by SAIC management. It was his suggestion to ignore anyone contacting me from SAIC becuase in the end, there would be no business. So I suppose I might change my style if it would lead to business, but my experiences being a nice guy lost me a ton of money pursuing dead-end opportunities with companies like SAIC. With regards to troughing, not knowing you, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are a fine, upstanding, government contractor. But unlike you, there are many others who are "wallowing at the government trough", which is inexcusable behavior of waste of taxpayers dollars. And if you can find an example of one of my accusations that is false about wasteful and inefficient Ada policies and activities of government employees, , let me and others know about it. Put up or shut up. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178