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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 11:27:13 +0100
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Le mercredi 07 janvier 2015 =C3=A0 10:17 +0000, Mark Carroll a =C3=A9crit :=
=20
> I suppose it depends to what extent AdaCore is a single point of
> failure. Does the FSF version get much active development that isn't
> hand-me-downs of AdaCore's paid work? I don't mind relying on a free
> compiler=20

It's not free it is Open Source. This is for me far better than just
free as in freeware for example where from a day to another the product
can disappear because the company as decided so.

Of course nothing is there forever. But to me an Open Source piece of
software has far more chance to live longer.

> if there's an associated development community already working
> on it directly,=20

I bet that if a strong needs if felt the community will be there to work
on this.=20

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