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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!transit.nntp.hccnet.nl!transit1.nntp.hccnet.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder2.news.jippii.net!reader1.news.jippii.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Organization: Tidorum Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126773856.876636.265130@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126794444.071827.191320@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <432994ac$0$27554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <4329a4c4$0$2103$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <4329a4c4$0$2103$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <0ThWe.24555$9b4.23682@reader1.news.jippii.net> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:05:45 +0300 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.17.205.61 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com X-Trace: reader1.news.jippii.net 1126804028 81.17.205.61 (Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:08 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:08 EEST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4727 Date: 2005-09-15T20:05:45+03:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: > GNAT Pro users have indicated a cost of $$$$ or more, not just > $$$. Last time I asked, GNAT Pro with support was more like mid-range $$_$$$. > Perhaps we can dream of a GNAT Std Edition, on a par with > what you get from Borland, Microsoft, or Intel, with limited support, > but with GMGPL? That would be OK for me. I have hoped for a long time that something like that would appear -- a way for small users to pay for using GNAT. But of course there are overheads in collecting such small sums from a limited number of users. -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .