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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-15 12:45:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:45:13 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <3CB94312.5040802@snafu.de> <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3719.2500 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22565 Date: 2002-04-15T14:45:13-05:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message <4519e058.0204150645.62003096@posting.google.com>... >tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... >> As Randy Brukardt noted the other day, the original idea for Claw "was to >> create a de facto standard, make a subset freely available, and eventually >> put the binding into the public domain to be a standard." But it didn't >> happen. Recently someone complained that Claw didn't currently support >> several features he needs. Nobody, to my knowledge, has added support for >> X to Claw, but multiple people have created alternative Windows bindings, >> none of which has become a standard, and none of which supports the > >I would submit that this is because the "release it to the public >domain" step was never followed through on. If they had done that >first, instead of planning on doing it last, things might have been >different. Couldn't have done that, because it would have left us nothing to sell -- and thus we'd have been out of business in a hurry. (The ATIP-P seed money also required a product to sell back to the government to "recover" the investiment -- which couldn't have been done if there was no product). We needed the GUI builder to be reasonable before we could let go of the bindings. If we hadn't held onto it for the first couple of year, it would never have gotten to the stability point that it is now. However, it could have been released a couple of years ago, but by then it was fairly clear that there was little interest in that. Randy.