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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,feeba31d5415227b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosstalk Article from Aonix References: <43EC6B05.90807@obry.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:45:27 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.150.74.36 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1139600727 67.150.74.36 (Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:45:27 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:45:27 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2848 Date: 2006-02-10T19:45:27+00:00 List-Id: jean-Pierre FAUCHE wrote: > The rest is marketing ;-) Marketing a technically inferior solution for safety-critical SW development at the expense of a technically superior solution is hardly a recommendation for a company. Ignoring the ethical considerations, what are the liability implications of selling someone on an inferior solution that fails, resulting in serious injury or loss of life? Seems to me it could be significant. -- Jeff Carter "My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles 89