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-Thread: 103376,c23311c4d57b937e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Cesar Rabak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:50:12 -0300 Message-ID: <4150CC44.7030806@acm.org> References: <414B6E62.9070402@acm.org> <0hL2d.762$QB1.501@trndny02> <414E2306.6030404@acm.org> <8%q3d.1820$kn2.1441@trndny07> <414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org> <1095728821.921629@yasure> <41507D37.6050207@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de jVI/aZPXOrvC0XOPf8PAawh734tUoEKpDs7UYwOr+JbUEfs2k= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; pt-BR; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: pt-br, pt Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3912 Date: 2004-09-21T21:50:12-03:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter escreveu: > Cesar Rabak wrote: > >> Yes. Again, try to grab some kind of 'market' where still everyone is >> not the incumbent. Displace a 'winning' technology would require lots >> of energy. > > > Someone posted here some time ago that an OS or kernel for set-top boxes > is an open market where a well designed, reliable, secure Ada offering > could compete. I know nothing about this domain area, but would be > willing to try to help. > Set-top boxes can profit from a free (Open Source) implementation? Or are we talking something more on the line of GNAT (an open plus commercial availability)? -- Cesar Rabak