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 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6cc64201bac042c6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-stoc.telia.net!news-stoa.telia.net!telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Company thoughts References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:42:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1086792134 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:42:14 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:42:14 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1313 Date: 2004-06-09T14:42:14+00:00 List-Id: Andrew Carroll wrote: > I can't say that I'm 'vaguely' interested in getting experience, I'm > seeking any experience I can get. Same here. Being unemployed doesn't stop me from programming and learning= =2E > I think what you may mean is that > your vaguely interested in doing work without pay and I can't blame you= ! Maybe "vaguely" wasn't the right word. I'm interested in anything that=20 can get me a job, and if your idea can be made to work it might be an=20 opportunity for me to get a job, and therefore I'm interested. It's not=20 the same as thinking that your concept is particularly interesting=20 compared to other ways of doing business. That's the difference I tried=20 to express. > It's all still very preliminary so your ideas are MOST welcomed!! Did > you have something in mind? I have plenty of ideas for software I'd like to write, or that someone=20 ought to write, if that's what you ask about. Whether one could make=20 money from them, I don't know. Some of them may already exist=20 unbeknownst to me. Some of them are: =B7 A replacement for atd and crond with more flexible scheduling abiliti= es. =B7 An XML-based unified configuration file format for programs on=20 Unix-like OSes, with accompanying configuration editors. =B7 A multi-purpose SIP user agent (for two-way and multi-way audio, vide= o=20 and text communication). A SIP user agent has to be permanently running=20 on the user's home computer, listening for calls from the Internet, so=20 it had better not have any buffer overflows, and therefore shouldn't be=20 written in C. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson jor ers @sv ge. b n_p son eri nu