From: Some Dude <john@peppermind.com>
Subject: Re: why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 11:21:45 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-08-26T11:21:45-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2294c089-90ce-4fcf-905b-56f8b64f9c55@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1608261946150.25197@earth.anapnea.net>
On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 6:49:31 PM UTC+1, Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester wrote:
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> |I am grappling with this: |
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> |Can I use GNAT to make programs in my for profit startup or not?"|
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> Would clients of a firm want to pay a firm that does not want to pay
> for a good compiler?
Of course they would.
Nowadays, many compilers are free as in "permissive license for any use". If Ada ever wanted to gain some traction and widespread popularity, either (a) GNAT would have to become LGPL or (b) someone else would need to make an LGPL or BSD licensed Ada compiler or (c) AdaCore would have to sell the full toolchain, including the libraries but perhaps without Spark and without further support, for less than $100. A working cross-platform GUI option (not "web-based") written in Ada and with permissive license would also not harm.
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2016-06-09 12:04 why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense endlessboomcapitalism
2016-06-10 5:51 ` Patrick Jakubowski
2016-06-10 20:42 ` rieachus
2016-07-22 17:14 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-07-22 20:56 ` David Botton
2016-07-23 3:15 ` gautier_niouzes
2016-07-23 5:44 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-07-25 20:57 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-08-22 0:15 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-08-22 1:20 ` Shark8
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2016-09-01 19:37 ` Shark8
2016-09-01 20:34 ` Simon Wright
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2016-09-10 7:14 ` Simon Wright
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2016-09-23 6:35 ` Simon Wright
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2016-09-24 8:37 ` G.B.
2016-09-24 11:38 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-25 10:08 ` darkestkhan
2016-09-25 12:56 ` rabbibotton
2016-09-25 17:38 ` darkestkhan
2016-09-25 12:52 ` rabbibotton
2016-09-04 12:16 ` David Botton
2016-08-22 11:45 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-25 15:26 ` Luke A. Guest
2016-08-26 17:49 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-26 18:21 ` Some Dude [this message]
2016-08-27 18:15 ` Andrew Shvets
2016-08-29 16:56 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-06-10 9:10 ` Lucretia
2016-06-10 14:16 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-07-22 11:47 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-07-22 12:17 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2016-07-22 12:28 ` Arie van Wingerden
2016-07-22 15:20 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-07-23 0:08 ` Georg Bauhaus
2016-07-25 20:58 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-07-26 21:25 ` jrmarino
2016-07-29 0:18 ` endlessboomcapitalism
2016-07-29 1:44 ` jrmarino
2016-07-29 0:18 ` endlessboomcapitalism
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