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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:32:55 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> Then maybe you can go out and fill that niche.  Take GCC from the FSF
> and write a good portable GUI library.  License it under whatever
> terms you like, and make money.  Your complaining will not improve the
> situation you complain about; your actions might.

I'm not complaining. I'm just giving my view on the topic. And thank
you, I'm making money in my day job. And in this job (which has
nothing to do with defense or aerospace) it's more economical to write
future apps in Java than to roll my own GUI library. This might be
another anecdotical example on the topic.

-- 
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. 
He simply follows the eleventh commandment.
-- R.A. Heinlein