Little people supporting Ada, possibly through AdaCore?

[Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

The other day I posted a comment in a thread:

"I am not attacking Adacore".......

"A private company seems to be the centre of the Ada and profit has to 
be their goal"

I got flamed.

In the rebuttal it stated that AdaCore has done more for Ada then the FSF. I never mentioned anything about the FSF and I am actually a bit disillusioned with them right now.

I couldn't agree more that AdaCore has done more for Ada then the FSF. having said this I think there is a danger to the greater Ada community to have all our "eggs in one basket". If an Oracle-like company decides to sue AdaCore, the results might not be as favourable as they appear to be playing out for Google, which has more wealth then entire countries to defend itself. 

My question is two fold.

Since AdacCore's paid support is well out of reach of my company(I am a one man operation) I can't really support AdaCore but I do want to. Is there something that can be done to keep the company going as long as possible?

Two, In the event that AdaCore should fail, would it be wise to come up with a back up plan? For instance, I know absolutely nothing about GNAT internals and I suspect many others are in this boat. Would it be good to try to form a non-profit group to studying the internals of it, just in case there is no one around to support it later? If this was the case, I propose it should be done in private as to not weaken AdaCore's market share.

-Patrick