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From: Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.03 for OS/2
Date: 1996/04/01
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> T.E.D. said
>
> ""On the other hand, I'm sure ACT will gladly accept donations.""
>
> Well we are certainly not soliciting donations, but a couple of people have
> been eager to make donations. I didn't want these just to get folded into
> ACT's operating expenses, so I decided to match them from ACT funds, and
> create a special prize fund to be used to award prizes to students who
> make valuable contributions to the free software world in general, and
> GNAT in particular.

What a nice idea - three chears for the nice people at ACT!

> We already have a couple of hundred dollars in this fund, so we don't need
> more donations, and we will figure out how to give this away when we get
> a chance (we are not exactly idle around here). I will make an appropriate
> CLA announcement (and acknolwedge those who have made donations) on CLA
> at a later date.

are you sure that you "don't need more donations"? - I think this
would be a nice thing to continue, though obviously the idea of ACT
matching all donations is unfair from your point of view, perhaps if
it catches on and enough donations are made then ACT would not have
to match donations. Sorry just my random thoughts.

> Robert Dewar
> Ada Core Technologies
>
>

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