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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13b7917466f2d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-05 13:36:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C0E933F.86CA2FB8@usa.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wgroleau@usa.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0 References: <9a575af3.0110020747.2304ce86@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110022002.7ccde025@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110060639.31567261@posting.google.com> <9pr6e8$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <%biw7.8780$H81.3054034106@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com> <5ee5b646.0110092211.a69a5f@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 16:35:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1007588165 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:36:05 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 15:36:05 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17474 Date: 2001-12-05T16:35:59-05:00 List-Id: Ronald Cole wrote: > > So who was the customer who was "threatened" ? RMS ? > > Read it for yourself: > Specifically, Mr. Dewar said: > > "If people started distributing wavefront versions freely, then w [sic] > would probably reluctantly decide to stop making them available, since > it would be clear that their distribution was harmful. That would be > too bad for the cases where they really solve a problem." He said if something bad happens they might reluctantly decide to prevent it. You call that a threat? That is no more a threat than for me to consider putting you in my killfile if your posts become a waste of my time. The only "threat" in that post is the hypothetical threat that "some lawyer" is NOT making in the next-to-last paragraph. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau