From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.43.69.83 with SMTP id yb19mr21934963icb.32.1433648578795; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:42:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.102.66 with SMTP id v60mr129930qge.19.1433648578641; Sat, 06 Jun 2015 20:42:58 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!h15no752706igd.0!news-out.google.com!k20ni45266qgd.0!nntp.google.com!z60no697430qgd.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 20:42:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <8ab06a29-91bd-4d23-afd7-1b2755420738@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.138.108.113; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.138.108.113 References: <463dff12-1b11-4f09-9d61-a46de6036c24@googlegroups.com> <1433578952.8224.21.camel@obry.net> <8ab06a29-91bd-4d23-afd7-1b2755420738@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2dd69c81-cd2f-4b01-8991-f7523a4526af@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Trying to make XMLada use a validating SAX Parser From: David Botton Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 03:42:58 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: number.nntp.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:193514 Date: 2015-06-06T20:42:58-07:00 List-Id: >And I'm even thinking about returning some contribution by adding Oracle s= upport in their gnatcoll SQL library, once I got my head around this librar= y too. I hope you would consider releasing that as a separate project from GnatCOL= L do to its license issues.=20 =20 > And I don't mind they have a business model with professional support, we= all have to have a revenue. Everyone agrees with and I am the first one to talk about AdaCore's profess= ional top notch support product. The problem is using the GPL run time as a= negative lever to encourage business instead of the playing up the true va= lue they have as an awesome support company, taking a leadership role, etc. It's a funny position for me to be in, I like them genuinely as people, bel= ieve in their support product (been on both sides of the table and can say = wonderful at both ends) but am ashamed at the negative end of the business = model that was taken in desperation and lacking creativity with the belief = it would hold in more customers instead of taking a positive directions. I often regret that 11 years ago I didn't made a bigger deal about it inste= ad of just walking away from Ada and my one projects in it. So I take some = blame for taking the easy way out myself then, but doing what I can now. David Botton