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From: Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org (Colin Paul Gloster)
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Rob Leif said:

"[..] The added benefit
is that because of ASIS, Ada is by far the best language for profitable
cooperative software development. [..]"

Colin Paul Gloster confessed to being confused and said:

"Sorry, why?"

Robert C. Leif explained:

"Because ASIS provides the functionality to determine the actual contribution
of individual packages to the linked code. Imagined scenario: I supply you
with a one million line library and you use 100 lines of the code in a
commercial project. (The metric is unimportant). Do you pay me for the one
million or 100 lines? ASIS provides the technology to have you just pay me
for the 100 lines without both of our lawyers negotiating the deal and
eating up most of the profits. [..]"

Alright, thanks, but this could be done without ASIS.