Re: Ada is getting more popular!

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

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Thomas Løcke <tl@Ada-Dk.org> sent on October 26th, 2010:

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|> Actually that each user has a redistribution right is a requirement         |
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|I know about that website, and I think their definition is a bit narrow.      |
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|It isn't if you think of opensource.org as the definitive authority on what is|
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Hi,

They coined and defined the term. They are the definitive authority.

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|"> Do Chinese imports destroy the European economy or do excessively high     |
|> costs of living in Europe and excessively high salaries in Europe and       |
|> laziness of Europeans destroy the European economy?                         |
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|Whether or not we're lazy, I don't know. I think my employees put in more or  |
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All laziness is relative. In relation to someone who chose to and did
spend only one minute of his life on recreation, that person was
lazier than someone who lived as long and chose to spend every minute
working hard.

American companies in Europe are not as leanient as European
companies. Supposedly people who had gone to America found that there
was less free time there and have returned to Europe.

European clockwatchers' working times per week are less than circa 46
hours, approximately four hours less than in Europe before the Second
World War.

People have been protesting in Europe against raising retirement
age. A friend in Europe is about to retire at the youngest permissible
age.

Not all Europeans are the same. Someone I am acquainted with in one
European country had a client which needed to outsource work because
labor laws in another European country forbade forcing the employees
of the client from doing enough work.

Regards,
Paul Colin