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Patrick:

> Having said this I think there is a danger to the greater Ada community to have all our "eggs in one basket".

Very right, and also it would be unhealthy for Ada to become a single-vendor language and lose the diversity of compilers which makes some of its strength.
If someone with a bit of sense of marketing could meet a small Ada compiler vendor... well, dreaming loud :-).

For the case AdaCore goes belly up, I would be less nervous: compilers do not stop working from themselves. So the first measure is to store versions of GNAT in a dry and cold place...
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