From: Glen <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?)
Date: 1999/04/21
Date: 1999-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
Robert Dewar wrote:
> In article <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com>,
> SpamSpamSpam <spam@spam.com> wrote:
> > > When someone asks
> > > for the latest version of PowerPoint, they are not
> > > asking
> > > for the development version that some team in Redmond
> > > is using to test out their latest additions and fixes
> ...
> >
> > Yes indeed, but then Power Point isn't GPL software ....
>
> So what? Why should the license under which sotware is
> distributed affect anything with respect to proper quality
> control ...
And just what affect does releasing "Betas" to the public haveon ACTs
quality control ? does your source code suddenly
become degraded or "infected" by the efforts of others ? Are your
paying customers so stupid as to take copies from unoffical sources ?
No.
And what about non-beta "professional" versions of GPL software
which are distributed to customers long before the glitch free version
of the "public" release appears? how does restricting their distribution
affect quality ?
And just how long where glib2 public users kept waiting for the "public"
release of a GPL work available to paying support customers ? glitch free ?
> or are you under the illusion that if I decide
> to use the GPL as a license it forces me to distribute
> untested stuff?
You didn't decide to use the GPL, the code came with the GPL, anyadditions
you made (and chose to release) HAD to be GPL.
> If so, this is a misprehension.
No, its your misrepresentation, just a spin todivert from the fact that
ACT cannot release a non GPL
GNAT.
> The GPL
> is a license for limited use of software,
How does it limit my use, except for trying to make it proprietary ?
> certainly more
> generous than the corresponding license for limited use
> used by Microsoft, but again, so what?
Microsoft prohibit me asking a fellow for a copy of the latest
version of power point, the GPL allows anyone the right to give
me or anyone else the latest version. This "not till its glitch free" is
crap, you restrict a GPL work and all that might be learnt from such
betas and an open testing, bug reporting, knowledge base,
to protect your only asset, which isn't the compiler because you
don't own it ( please don't talk about the version you keep under
your bed at ACT, which okay you do own ) its the knowledge.
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Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-17 0:00 Ada compiler for PC? Michael Feher
1999-04-17 0:00 ` Steven Hovater
1999-04-17 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-18 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-20 0:00 ` GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) SpamSpamSpam
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Glen [this message]
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-21 0:00 ` root
1999-04-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Glen
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-22 0:00 ` Russell Senior
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-04-23 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-24 0:00 ` Christopher Browne
1999-04-23 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Geoffrey KEATING
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-25 0:00 ` EGCS & GNAT Was (Re: GNAT versions) David Starner
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-26 0:00 ` GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Geoffrey KEATING
1999-04-26 0:00 ` bourguet
[not found] ` <7fua23$fgh$1@nnrp1 <37234dca.a509d0d9@aasaa.ofe.org>
1999-04-26 0:00 ` EGCS & GNAT Was (Re: GNAT versions) Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-23 0:00 ` GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Samuel Mize
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Russell Senior
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-24 0:00 ` Russ Allbery
[not found] ` <7fqld6$htu$1@nnrp1.dej <1999Apr23.172908.1@eisner>
[not found] ` <7frqmj$bg6$1@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>
1999-04-24 0:00 ` Leslie Mikesell
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Russ Allbery
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Maciej Stachowiak
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-25 0:00 ` Maciej Stachowiak
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Per Bothner
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Stan Shebs
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-28 0:00 ` David Kastrup
1999-04-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Per Bothner
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Mike Stump
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Mike Stump
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Mike Stump
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-08 0:00 ` bill
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-04-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-24 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-04-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-24 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1999-04-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-20 0:00 ` Ada compiler for PC? Tom Moran
1999-04-18 0:00 ` Wilhelm Spickermann
[not found] ` <7fua23$fgh$1@nnrp1 <37234dca.a <1999Apr25.201259.1@eisner>
1999-04-25 0:00 ` EGCS & GNAT Was (Re: GNAT versions) Leslie Mikesell
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Mike Stump
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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