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From: Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>
Subject: Re: and visual library once again
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 06:14:21 GMT
Date: 2005-10-23T06:14:21+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1TF6f.1787$dW6.1751@trndny09> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130045670.471015.25650@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Steve Whalen wrote:
> GNAT would be a "perfect" example only if AdaCore were still respecting
> the wishes of the people who put up the money (the DOD), who insisted
> on the GMGPL for the runtime libraries of the GNAT compiler.

They received a contract for a project and they fulfilled it.
Whatever wishes may be involved are irrelevant. And actually,
the original contract was deliberately for less than the whole
of the Ada standard precisely to avoid damaging the business of
other Ada vendors. If anything, by releasing a GPL-only runtime,
AdaCore is honoring that original intent.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-23  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-20 17:29 and visual library once again Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 18:38 ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-20 21:01   ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 21:04     ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-20 21:09       ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-20 21:21         ` Pascal Obry
2005-10-21  2:19           ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21  3:08             ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21  7:52               ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-21 13:48                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 10:43               ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21 13:50                 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 13:54                   ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-21 16:29                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-21 18:19                       ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-25 22:01                         ` Björn Persson
2005-10-21  4:02             ` tmoran
2005-10-21  6:54               ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22  5:38                 ` tmoran
2005-10-23  2:42                   ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-21  9:58               ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-21 14:55                 ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-21 16:51                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-21 22:01                   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-23  6:31                   ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23 11:27                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-23 21:41                       ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-24  3:14                         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2005-10-24 12:52                     ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-25  7:23                       ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-25 14:20                         ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-21 17:01               ` Björn Persson
2005-10-22  5:38                 ` tmoran
2005-10-25 20:51                   ` Björn Persson
2005-10-25 22:16                     ` tmoran
2005-10-25 23:14                       ` Björn Persson
2005-10-26  0:14                         ` tmoran
2005-10-26 22:11                           ` Björn Persson
2005-10-26 23:46                             ` OT: was " tmoran
2005-10-27 23:40                               ` Björn Persson
2005-10-28  2:30                                 ` tmoran
2005-10-30  0:20                                   ` Björn Persson
2005-10-21  7:00             ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-21 14:18               ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-21 15:53                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-21 18:14                   ` Marc A. Criley
2005-10-21 18:52                   ` Martin Dowie
2005-10-21 18:26             ` Simon Wright
2005-10-21 20:11               ` Szymon Guz
2005-10-21 20:47                 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22  5:38                   ` tmoran
2005-10-22 12:06                     ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-10-23  2:41                     ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-23  6:35                       ` tmoran
2005-10-23  6:49                         ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-22  7:56                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-23  2:32                     ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-23  8:43                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2005-10-23  5:34                   ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23  6:14                     ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2005-10-23  7:39                       ` Steve Whalen
2005-10-23  9:31                         ` Hyman Rosen
2005-10-24 12:56                   ` Bob Spooner
2005-10-24 13:08                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2005-10-23  3:44                 ` Steve
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