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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pmartin@mail.earthlink.net (Pascal F. Martin) Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/01/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 579778459 References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: cmnws01.we.mediaone.net 949298182 24.130.45.139 (Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:56:22 PST) Organization: MediaOne-Road Runner, Western Region Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:56:22 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <86la8r$519$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar writes: > Actually I think part of what goes on here is that ACT is > *more* open than a lot of the Linux and GCC development. > [...] The same is true > of course for Linux developments at Redhat. RedHat is _NOT_ developping Linux. Linux is being developped by a bunch of individuals and integrated by Linus Torvald, an engineer currently employed by Transmeta Inc. RedHat develop a Linux distribution: this is kind of product integration work (akin to software editor). It is incredible how even computer science legends like Robert can be victim of marketing image and branding. I have to work with someone who also believed Linux was a product of RedHat and that the HardHat distribution was the "official" version of Linux for the embedded market, just because of the name match (how clever !). ------------------------------------------------------------------ Pascal F. Martin.