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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news.uni-hamburg.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototypinglanguage) Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1083583064 28050 134.91.1.34 (3 May 2004 11:17:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:17:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/800)) Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:201 Date: 2004-05-03T11:17:44+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: :> >:>Music market is without ways of rewarding artists? :> >: :> >: Should it be a market? What sells a violinist of an orchestra? :> > :> >Different question. : : Actually I find it very similar, executing a musical score, and executing a : program. The composer gets his royalties, why not the programmer? Well he does, doesn't he? There may well be payment for his work, provided it isn't explicitly stated that production and use of his work is at no cost, or he is a slave. :> But what is the goal of rewarding? : : Making a living. Right. (To DK:) If you think that Vincent van Gogh was underpayed, Bill Gates is overpayed, Anton Fugger was undeservedly rich, etc, by what rules is/should this be regulated? What could be done to achieve equal opportunities for programmers, for example? -- Georg