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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ba18d626276a71e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: Towards a free GNU Ada Date: 1997/07/06 Message-ID: <33BFCFC4.1FF@ix.netcom.com.spam>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255007647 References: <33BBB704.167E@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Jul 06 7:02:32 AM PDT 1997 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-06T07:02:32-07:00 List-Id: James Rogers wrote: [SNIP] > Perhaps it is time to remove some conflict from the ACT charter. > It seems the only way to do this is to either find a continuing > source of funding for development and maintenance of GNAT, or to > find some alternate group to perform maintenance of a public > version of GNAT, effectively creating a separate version from the > product produced by ACT. [SNIP] With respect I think this is a load of nonsense! You can get a copy of a working GNAT for dozens of platforms including almost all the important ones. You can even get the source code and build it yourself. And you are legally allowed to give those items to anyone else you please. If you find a bug you can report it to the maintainers and generally any real bug that might affect the paying customers of ACT gets fixed pretty damn quickly, whilst _all_ bugs are at least noted. Given all this, the fact that the sofware is actually still being actively (and if I may say so very rapidly) by a single team can only be a bonus as far as I'm concerned. I speak as someone who recently got GNAT authorised for some work at a large British defence contractor. I've since changed jobs but I understand they're moving to using it even more widely. Please don't take any offence at this, and in fact feel free to write me and discuss it privately, but really until you demonstrate anything really holding back any unsupported GNAT users you have no case. Chris -- Chris Morgan "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"