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 23:09:53 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Defending Greg Message-ID: List-Id: I have never said everyone government employee is ripping off the taxpayer. In fact, if you though about my directory of all of the government's software, you would realize that I recognize that the vast majority of government employees do their job as well as can be done under current conditions. Why else would I try collecting all of their software, and try to help other people use these programs. At the same, all of these good people allow the waste to go on, at the expense of many people. Going to Congress, etc to address these problems is not the answer. These are internal problems for which there are no internal channels to correct. If they can't be solved within the Ada community, then the Ada community does not deserve to be able to spend taxpayer dollars. We should be self-policing, not self-serving. Case in point. The DoD is now requiring contractors to submit lists of reusable software in their RFP bids. Yet the word through the grapevine is that contractors are submitting lists of little relevance because they know that no project managers in the DoD can evaluate how useful or complete such lists are. Yet for all of this grapevine talk, nothing is being done publicly or through channels, allwoing new forms of waste to occur. This tolerance is more obnoxious than my obviously childish insults. But at least I am obvious, while others get plaques. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178