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From: "David Botton" <David@Botton.com>
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Subject: Re: Is JGNAT production ready?...
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 09:35:45 -0500
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Date: 2001-01-07T09:35:45-05:00

An important difference to note is that unlike most other Open Source
support companies, ACT has been releasing all their advances to the
community in a timely consistant manner and with out licenses that encumber
your software. It is a shame that more open source companies do not learn
from them.

David Botton



----- Original Message -----
From: "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
> But this has nothing to do with GNAT, ACT or whatever. The whole Open
Source
> community is working this way. GCC, GNAT, CVS, <name your tool here> have
> public version from time to time, are supported by compagnies like ACT,
> Cygnus, SourceGear and these tools have a "supported" version not yet
> available to the public (only available to the customers)...