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From: Brian Drummond <brian@shapes.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: What is the best license to use for open source software?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:18:57 +0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:46:50 -0800, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote:

> On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 9:37:34 AM UTC-6, David Botton wrote:
>> > If the Ada community is not interested in broadly attacking the
>> > problem then nothing is going to change.
>> 
>> Perhaps:
>> 
>> 1. Start a new thread with a specific issue you need help on 
[... other good suggestions snipped]
>
> So the community here would rather shoot the messenger than accept the
> message?  Like I said, nothing changes.  All the good intentions in the
> world won't solve it.  Despite individuals making valuable contributions
> to moving the bar, the bar is still crushingly low.

Suggesting you contribute is not shooting you.

News flash : posting here, you are *part* of the Ada community, not 
something separate from it, outside it looking in. 

Your problems are our problems too. I post here fairly regularly but I'm 
not remotely a major Ada expert, just another small time member of the Ada 
community.

So, you have problems (for example) installing AVR-Ada on OS/X. Probably 
you're the first person to try with your specific combination of packages 
and what worked smoothly for the last guy on the previous release no 
longer works. 

Report the specific problem - if not here, then on the AVR-Ada Sourceforge 
page and work with the nice folks there to resolve it. That's what I did 
(sorry, not for OS/X) and make life *slightly* better for the next guy. I 
mention the AVR because there are a few good people here working on the 
ARM already : watch for announcements.

Cumulatively, that's what it'll take to get us out of the mess you so 
correctly say we're in.

- Brian