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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc3cd65b8421a1e9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Subject: Re: gtkada/glade info needed Date: 2000/10/02 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 676667978 References: <39D65E94.DD8563E@acm.org> <39D76103.1D3E5503@acm.org> <8r90d2$pem$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39D86FEA.A24BB293@maths.unine.ch> <39D889FA.F901BF94@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 970501907 11564 129.241.83.82 (2 Oct 2000 15:51:47 GMT) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 2000 15:51:47 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-02T15:51:47+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:13:30 -0400, Marin David Condic wrote: >Maybe your average hobbyist can play around with bits and pieces of a >given technology and maybe even add value to it for others. Just because something doesn't _cost_ money, doesn't mean it isn't good! Just as because something that do _cost_ a lot of money, do not need to be any good. I have a very good example, but I guess you already know. I'm not sure IBM is your average hobbyist. That said, of course people will use something that they don't have to pay $ 800 out of their own pocket to use on their own time. -- Preben Randhol - Ph.D Student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ ._. Debian 2.2 |"Don't think about domination, think about freedom, / _,\ Potato | it doesn't dominate." - Richard M. Stallman | (_./ GNU/Linux | To learn more visit => http://www.debian.org/ \,