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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fc6b98caa14b4851 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Adrian Hoe" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive? Date: 11 Oct 2006 22:35:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1160631304.552665.260340@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> References: <3698634.pnVmuSdKQp@linux1.krischik.com> <1160615994.763157.169660@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 60.51.115.71 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1160631309 25986 127.0.0.1 (12 Oct 2006 05:35:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:35:09 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/418.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=60.51.115.71; posting-account=LKUaWwwAAABzCo8SD2jIIt5LtkPzH8ot Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6926 Date: 2006-10-11T22:35:04-07:00 List-Id: On Oct 12, 11:17 am, sg wrote: > Adrian Hoe napisa=B3(a): > > > > well, but what if I want just a compiler without any support and just > for 3 seats... not for 5, and not with GPL? Exactly what we wanted for 3 only but still have to pay for 5. Wish they can be more flexible. -- Adrian Hoe http://adrianhoe.net http://adrianhoe.com