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: 103376,2f7ef46127892c41,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.129.69 with SMTP id nu5mr3466450pbb.3.1336138015422; Fri, 04 May 2012 06:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni3142pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Little people supporting Ada, possibly through AdaCore? Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 06:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <12955589.960.1336138013614.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfk16> NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.51.153.250 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1336138014 19289 127.0.0.1 (4 May 2012 13:26:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 13:26:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.51.153.250; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-05-04T06:26:53-07:00 List-Id: 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=20 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 disillusio= ned with them right now. I couldn't agree more that AdaCore has done more for Ada then the FSF. havi= ng 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 Ada= Core, the results might not be as favourable as they appear to be playing o= ut for Google, which has more wealth then entire countries to defend itself= .=20 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 s= omething 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 wit= h a back up plan? For instance, I know absolutely nothing about GNAT intern= als 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 s= hould be done in private as to not weaken AdaCore's market share. -Patrick