Xref: utzoo comp.software-eng:5433 comp.object:3295 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.object Subject: Re: How to pay for reusable software Message-ID: Date: 23 Apr 91 00:06:59 GMT References: <1991Apr12.182420.18587@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <291@dumbcat.sf.ca.us> <12676@pucc.Princeton.EDU> <1991Apr16.123527.2854@jyu.fi> <71966@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@Rational.COM Followup-To: comp.software-eng Lines: 9 Word counts are quasi-useless. A two paragraph article announcing yet-another dinky routine on a UNIX platform is hardly of the same importance as a paper on a successful delivery of a 2 million line of code Ada program on time and under budget. -- * The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software * * engineering, in which case I borrowed them from incredibly smart people. * * * * Rational: cutting-edge software engineering technology and services. *