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From: "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Qt4Ada: Qt for Ada
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Yves Bailly wrote:

> ... I do believe that "commercial" /= "closed source". ...
>

While this is very true, it is also very misleading.

The best estimates I've seen show that pure GPL only "commercial"
software (with _no_ GMGPL'd library units) constitutes significantly
less than 1% of all commercial software, whether the % is measured in
copies of programs distributed, $ / Euro's spent on the software, or
the number of applications.

While I am a big supporter of open source, in the real world, GPL
without GMGPL on appropriate units _does_ mean essentially no
commercial development will be done with that GPL only compiler /
library / toolkit.

Steve