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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 10:00:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <4a885870.0108112341.7ce02ac0@posting.google.com> <9l6pdo$rlo$1@newsg3.svr.pol.co.uk> <9IFe7.12813$6R6.1221214@news1.cableinet.net> <9lghqu$ac6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7C3293.76F49097@home.com> <9lhefg$lgd$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B7D47F1.25D6FC78@boeing.com> <5ee5b646.0108171856.18631c4c@posting.google.com> <3B7F624B.7294D24F@acm.org> <9lr6je$5hj$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9ltoi7$4is$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3B82789B.8D195045@home.com> <9ltuo8$70n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9lujcr$aai2@news.cis.okstate.edu> <9m0e48$5he$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Progress on AdaOS (Was: Re: How Ada could have prevented the Red Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:42:06 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:42:06 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12258 Date: 2001-08-22T16:42:06+00:00 List-Id: In article <9m0e48$5he$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > >First off, lets clarify a couple of things. I am not involved with AdaOS and >am not in any way shape or form looking to be involved with AdaOS. Hence I'm >not targeting anything for any market. What I am observing is that AdaOS is >Vaporware and one of the reasons is that (IMHO) nobody is getting paid or >seeing some way of eventually getting paid for having been involved in That is indeed one reason. However, you can't make the argument that its failing because of its status as an OpenSource project, because: a) There are plenty of other succesful counter-examples. b) It has never been organized the way any of those other succesful counter-examples were organized. OpenSource projects, if performed properly, *do* have their own system of rewards for the participants. If you have some spare time, I'd suggest you read over ESR's essay "Homesteading the Noosphere". It goes into this in great detail. As it was written by a raving libertarinan, it couched entirely in market and reward/punishment terms. I suspect you would be more receptive to that than the FSF's ideology. :-) My stupid net-nanny won't let me see it anymore, but I believe its up at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/ somewhere. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com