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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d311338eabd7ca93 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.226.10 with SMTP id ro10mr13779457pbc.6.1328614453333; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:34:13 -0800 (PST) Path: lh20ni270285pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiler business prospects Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:34:12 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4f27e278$0$6549$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <12716838.1333.1328020580723.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prhq14> <82fwetfu0r.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <8739atjijy.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <08d75622-44ae-407f-8cac-755874c2d48d@eb6g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <82lioiuqrz.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: eGGE2euDXtk6rV6+/hKXsg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.61 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-02-07T12:34:12+01:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:40:05 +0100, Ludovic Brenta = a =C3=A9crit: > More generally, I personally believe that small companies cannot > compete by selling cheap products in the mass market and that this > applies not only to software but to pretty much everything; this is > because the key to succeeding in the mass market is to control > distribution channels (i.e. retail stores). That's a clever analysis. Will keep it as a note somewhere. -- = =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