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=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b019f7f1faf2125d,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 07:20:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nntp.theplanet.net!inewsm1.nntp.theplanet.net!195.40.4.120.MISMATCH!easynet-quince!easynet.net!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT:Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:19:11 +0300 (MSK) Organization: h w c employees, b f Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1046964003 38870 137.194.161.2 (6 Mar 2003 15:20:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 15:20:03 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: 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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34976 Date: 2003-03-06T18:19:11+03:00 On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:50:49 +0100 Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: >Does our civilization really need so many programmers? Perhaps yes: nearly all people should be prepared for writing scripts for their Body Area Networks, Social Frame Network Participation Adapters etc. -:) >>and very few of the financial resources used to do it would have been >>otherwise available for the things you list (which pretty much require >>Government, not private sector, funding). > >True. It is the lack-of-a-threat problem. There would be no landing on >the moon without the Cold War. Only a real threat gives birth to real >solutions. To be more precise, only a real threat to a state leads to solutions seriously funded by the state. Otherwise, there are always enough real threats. In other words, only massively concentrated thread is responded by massively concentrated funding; distributed threat takes distributed funding. >nobody wants to live in interesting times. (:-)) Well, this time is quite interesting, though. Real global networks with hundreds of million participants, huge leap in computational power, intellectual property battles, China... to name a few.