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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI
	autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,b019f7f1faf2125d
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-07 02:37:12 PST
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail
From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Way OT:Adam Smith and Software Markets
Date: Fri,  7 Mar 2003 08:31:12 +0300 (MSK)
Organization: h w c employees, b f
Message-ID: <mailman.13.1047033430.4331.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1047033432 42604 137.194.161.2 (7 Mar 2003 10:37:12
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:37:12 +0000 (UTC)
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Return-Path: <aek@vib.usr.pu.ru>
X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS]
X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1
Precedence: list
List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway <comp.lang.ada.ada.eu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://ada.eu.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada.eu.org?subject=subscribe>
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35016
Date: 2003-03-07T08:31:12+03:00

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 17:37:51 +0100
Dmitry A. Kazakov <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:

>BTW, China, I believe it is a Chinese saying: to wish somebody to live
>in interesting times.
I thought that Chinese saying was about "times of changes"... let's don't mix
classical sayings (Chinese or other) with Monty Python (I have nothing against
the latter, just do not mix -:)

> Fortunately, our time is not enough "interesting"! (:-))
It depends on where you live... and consequently, what you can watch and feel.

> However, it is getting closer to that. What about
>getting 25 years jail in a combat (in one of that intellectual property battles)?
Well, it is hard to frighten former Soviet people (for example) with such
usual things -;)  And be sure, those so-called "developed" nations didn't
(and will not) forget entirely their own history.