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,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-09 00:30:16 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news-out.nibble.net!hub1.nntpserver.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out-sjo.usenetserver.com!e420r-sjo4.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: RE: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 07:30:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.20.190.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 989393416 24.20.190.201 (Wed, 09 May 2001 00:30:16 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 00:30:16 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7355 Date: 2001-05-09T07:30:16+00:00 List-Id: > In article , Robert C. Leif, > Ph.D. says... > >I still believe that in the long run, a significant part of the Ada > >community could make a large amount of money by going beyond the outdated > >Free Software philosophy and pursuing an effective approach to assist > > Personally, I'm not all that interested in making "a large amount of money" off > of Ada. What I'd like to do is increase the utility and usage of the language, It's great than some people work to "increase the utility and usage of the language" out of pure love, but if you want the result, and not merely the process, then you should encourage help even from those who do want, or need, "a large amount of money". Over the long term, there are a lot more of the latter than the former.