From: Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 04:40:29 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-02-05T04:40:29-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <225aa884-892d-43a8-8326-1d69f0151f17@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16s3pyt9fvzw0.1tpjaer6keqof.dlg@40tude.net>
On Friday, January 21, 2011 2:29:58 AM UTC-7, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> I think that AdaCore should probably modify their business model in order
> to have something between the FSF for 0 and Pro for 15K. Many small
> businesses and private persons would promptly buy Linux or Windows GNAT for
> $100-500 without support +, say, $25-50 per upgrade. This would not compete
> with GNAT Pro, because, my guess, Pro targets rather embedded and R-T
> solutions, e.g. VxWorks and standalone, or impose no additional costs.
For the embedded world high quality C/C++ compilers cost around $5K but have a larger customer base so charging a little more for Ada seems reasonable. The $15K seems high to me it should be closer to $10K. I think that is around the price of the Green Hills Ada 95 compiler.
If a pure free GPL Ada compiler is needed many folks would need to become compiler maintainers and just fork off from GNAT. I seriously doubt this will happen.
Can't we let the AdaCore people make a living I doubt anyone there is getting rich.
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2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 21:03 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-20 21:56 ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21 0:08 ` qunying
2011-01-21 4:43 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22 5:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22 6:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25 1:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 9:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21 9:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40 ` Marco [this message]
2011-01-22 15:29 ` Lucretia
2011-01-21 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 4:33 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-21 5:00 ` Shark8
2011-01-21 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11 ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03 9:40 ` deadlyhead
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