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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,877ba3d67e73c6c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-19 16:34:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.177.105.133!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!198.207.153.205!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Paranoia about .NET (still): Rant! (was) Development process in the Ada community Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: References: <3CB46975.90408@snafu.de> <5ee5b646.0204121930.64733eeb@posting.google.com> <5wTt8.15598$C21.3515342@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <5ee5b646.0204130620.114953ae@posting.google.com> <4519e058.0204180615.150e4bef@posting.google.com> <357f0f4aab2ac8ef39234c96f0ab6311.48257@mygate.mailgate.org> <5ee5b646.0204190349.679342bf@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.207.153.205 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1019240111 12490 198.207.153.205 (Sat Apr 20 01:34:41 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 23:34:41 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=198.207.153.205; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1019240111 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/bb5cbbfb9fa4da62cfa3b0af20f6d5e8.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22796 misc.misc:6695 Date: 2002-04-19T23:34:41+00:00 List-Id: "Robert Dewar" wrote: > Well no doubt it satisfies some need to imagine that Microsoft is > plotting and scheming against Ada, but I am afraid it is absurd. I don't think that should be read as the intent of my remarks. Microsoft _is_ plotting and scheming against (at least some) anything(s) that make(s) application programming OS independent (and the court transcripts and judgements exist to prove that) and thereby free people to make an OS choice based on quality instead of market share. Whether Microsoft even knows Ada exists is sort of equally irrelevant as whether the steamroller operator knows the earthworm on the pavement ahead of him exists. If the goal is to flatten all obstacles to worldwide domination of a single dappy operating system, the incidental kills will probably be numerous, just as when the shrimp seine kills tenfold as many pounds of fish as it catches pounds of shrimp, and the dead fish are simply thrown back overboard. xanthian. -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG