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Date: 2012-02-07T12:30:29+01:00
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Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:40:05 +0100, Ludovic Brenta  =

<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a =C3=A9crit:
> No. The FUD is in thinking *a priori* that this business model is
> "impossible" and presenting that as a "fact".
One talks about an absolute appreciation, the other about a practical  =

appreciation.

It just happens that although possible, this is hardly done and unlikely=
  =

to work for most. People arguing that's impossible are wrong about the  =

whole, true, while people arguing that's possible, are wrong about  =

effectiveness too, when they forget to provide any kind of evaluation  =

(like providing probability of success, which is known to be very=E2=80=91=
very low  =

with that model).

It happens too, most people complaining about that fact, will fall in th=
e  =

common case where it's not possible. If that was more likely possible,  =

believe people who mean they would be the first glad to go for the  =

adventure (I'm of these ones too :-P ).

May be you are both right and both wrong and precision was lacking (Ada =
 =

designers failing to provide relevant specifications, what a shame :-(  =
  =

... just teasing :-P ).

-- =

=E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1]
=E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.=
=E2=80=9D [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers=
ity