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From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: and visual library once again
Date: 22 Oct 2005 22:34:30 -0700
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
> You need to arrange to get the money ahead of time. The way to do
> this is to get prospective users of the program to put up the money
> to fund your development. Then when the work is done, everyone gets
> the program. GNAT itself is a perfect example of this.

GNAT would be a "perfect" example only if AdaCore were still respecting
the wishes of the people who put up the money (the DOD), who insisted
on the GMGPL for the runtime libraries of the GNAT compiler.

As it is, AdaCore has made a perfectly legal "move", but one which I
think disrespects the intentions of the origins of GNAT, and certainly
the intentions of the "venture capitalists" who gave them their start.

Steve