>At this point this thread is completly out of focus! There is just nothing >about Ada... I disagree. It is quite important issue about Ada: is that language alive enough and can it survive outside of the big corporations? Yes, it is a non-technical question, but >this is Team-Ada :) So, some aspects of corporate vs. academic vs. freelance behavior are at least loosely relevant. As a person that was born and rose in socialistic environment (Soviet), and moreover, witnessed its flourishing, stagnation, and collapse, I want to add several words: >I happen to believe that the "socialistic" aspects of the >GPL are -- nope. Almost bit. I think that there is enough "leftist" in the principal GPL approach, although not exactly "socialistic". The GPL incorporates what is common in the academic view and socialistic view. >Anti-corporate is neither anti-property nor anti-American. Surely. As many symptoms suggest, the big corporations are substantially socialistic internally. Alexander Kopilovitch [log in to unmask] Saint-Petersburg Russia