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From: Stefan Skoglund <stetson@ebox.tninet.se>
Subject: Re: Confusing language,
 was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/05
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tmoran@bix.com wrote:
> 
> >Just so no one else gets confused, Ada Core Technologies does
> >not deal in proprietary software at all. Our software is
> >copyrighted (mostly the copyrights are held by the Free Software
>   "Proprietary - Held under patent, trademark, or copyright by a
> private person or company."
> 

Proprietary sw is also a great way of riping of customers if 
the copyright holders so desire.
A small example:
Here in Sweden we have a small one-man company.
He has been using for 10 years a proprietary economy system.
Every year he pays a yearly amount of money (about 1000 dollars)
This year (1999) he badly needed a y2k safe version so he contacted
the company and was told that it would cost him 8000 dollars.

This is a rip-off and it was doable because the software was
proprietary ie non-free.