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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!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: OpenSSL development (Heartbleed) Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 22:39:11 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <-OGdnezdYpRWFc_OnZ2dnUVZ_vednZ2d@giganews.com> <535297f1$0$6715$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <5352a585$0$6707$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> <5352caf7$0$6705$9b4e6d93@newsspool2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Y10Rmk3cmxajnL+x3h8IkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:19455 Date: 2014-04-19T22:39:11+02:00 List-Id: Le Sat, 19 Apr 2014 21:13:58 +0200, Georg Bauhaus = a =C3=A9crit: > [=E2=80=A6] > > What does funding or not of their project have to do with > reasons forrejection? And what does funding or not of their > project have to do with rejection or not? And what does funding > or not of your project have to do with (reasons for) rejection? > > Apple, for example, is known to be secretive about how they will > finally react, or not react, to bug reports. They are well funded. > > Thus it might be an ideal situation when funding means maintenance > and (responsive) support, but I don't see that funding entails > the latter two. > > [=E2=80=A6] > > Right, and rhetoric is a well established human activity, too. > Human activities is what may or may not turn the hypothesis that > Funding =3D Quality_Assurance into a fact, in each case. You show it does not always help, especially with some companies. OK. Since the initial message, I have not suggested it's a mechanical rule, = = just that there are things which may help and others which may make it = less likely (I suspect we may somewhat agree on this). Offering a = favourable context, surely can help. If ever you doubt it can help, just= = think about these graduate schools dropping Ada courses because their = students want to learn something which come with paid job (not unpaid = volunteer job) opportunities, and this is so even in france, =E2=80=9Cth= e country = of Ada=E2=80=9D (just teasing with what's in quotes=E2=80=A6 I know many= countries are = country of Ada too). I will stop arguing on this, with this message, which will be the last o= ne = :-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