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,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-08 11:03:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Proving Correctness (was Java Portability) References: <9krlra$gk3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 18:03:10 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 997293790 24.7.82.199 (Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:03:10 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 11:03:10 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11632 Date: 2001-08-08T18:03:10+00:00 List-Id: > I know of one situation where Company X paid Company Y >to develop a product and Company Y retained ownership with Company X having >few rights. (Names changed to protect the stupid! :-) However, I don't think >Company Y has yet found a customer for the product outside of Company X, And then there's the case where X was IBM, Y was Microsoft, and the product was MSDOS (sometimes, but less often, known as PCDOS).