From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA24423; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:41:11 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id SAA24554 for caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 18:41:10 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22564 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:17:31 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (chopin.ai.univie.ac.at [131.130.174.170]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f9OFHS503737; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:17:29 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from markus@localhost) by chopin.ai.univie.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) id RAA16221; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:17:23 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 17:17:23 +0200 From: Markus Mottl To: Xavier Leroy Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Whither the Caml Consortium? Message-ID: <20011024171723.C15758@chopin.ai.univie.ac.at> References: <20011020012347.A29847@quincy.inria.fr> <20011019192854.N9735-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> <20011020172932.A5967@fichte.ai.univie.ac.at> <20011022192533.A12039@quincy.inria.fr> <3BD45932.6D782E08@earthlink.net> <20011024164835.C20823@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011024164835.C20823@pauillac.inria.fr>; from xavier.leroy@inria.fr on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 16:48:35 +0200 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Xavier Leroy wrote: > The best answer to this question is: "well, here are some high-tech > companies that no only use it, but support it financially by being > members of the consortium". (An even better answer would be: "And by > the way, your main competitor is already a member"; instant adhesion > guaranteed :-) This intimitating psychological effect is a good argument ;) > The second reason is less idealistic: given the legal structure of the > Consortium, registering a new member requires some paperwork on INRIA's > side, whose effective cost is likely to be in the $50-100 range... This surely depends on the number of membership requests. If only one individual applies, this may be true, but average costs per request are likely to be much lower if 100 do so. Why don't we run an opinion poll on this to see whether enough people have interest? Yahoo Groups offers such poll functionality for free, and it may come handy more than once when INRIA wants to get mass feedback from OCaml-users... Regards, Markus Mottl -- Markus Mottl markus@oefai.at Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence http://www.oefai.at/~markus ------------------- Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr