From: Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2013-09-24T07:49:04+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <l1rg5g$5pn$1@speranza.aioe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CE66FF2F.3732E%yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk
On 2013-09-24, Bill Findlay <yaldnif.w@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/09/2013 08:05, in article l1rdj8$uge$1@speranza.aioe.org, "Bill
> Richards" <billrich@gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> We don't use it where I work although I've used the so-called gcc-ada for
>> some personal projects. I'm well aware where it comes from. I paid for
>> it. And so did anyone else who was paying U.S. income tax when NYU received
>> the federal grant to develop it. It's a neat trick that somebody was able to
>> turn a federally-funded educational software development project into a
>> private, for-profit business. Hint: the code was not GPL until after 3.15p.
>
> And you call that communist?
No! I'm calling Linux/GPL communist and saying there's much wrong about
UNIX. Much about UNIX is contrary to what Ada is all about. This thread has
become very confusing but Ada/GPL was not what I (or anyone) was talking
about until Paul brought it up.
> It's in the best traditions of pork-barrel capaitalism, isn't it?
It certainly could have been. I don't understand how they got away with it
though. Makes you wonder how often this sort of thing has happened. Of
course the other way around happens a lot too, where some person or company
spends all the money and effort creating or developing something and the
government appropriates it. California is famous for this. Find and
cultivate a source of water or minerals or some other natural resource on
so-called "private land", spend millions or hundreds of millions on
development, and then the state grabs it under some "Public Good" clause or
otherwise ties you up in court for a decade until you can't afford the legal
bills anymore. Makes you wonder how private the land was, or why it was
worth buying or even how it was possible to buy it in the first place...
Bill
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards [this message]
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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