Re: GNAT 2.04 Install Problem!!!

[dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller)]

In article <3n8hal$h5s@news.znet.com>, Jim Dorman  <jimd@pcada.com> wrote:
>> [Fair grumbles about known TIMEZONE bug in GNAT]
>> What impact this has, I do not know.  However, this is an annoyance
>> when I have other applications that depend upon a valid TZ entry
>> (i.e., MS-Windows news readers, mailers, etc.).
>> 
>These types of things should be expected when using FREE software! Just
>plan to spend a lot of EXTRA TIME working around "bugs" and other
>limitations. If you don't have the time or energy to "deal with it",
>then you should consider a commercial Ada compiler that has been
>developed for the commercial marketplace.
>
Ahahahah!  BZZT!  I'm sorry, next contestant!

Reminds me of one of my _many_ "war stories" with a commercial
compiler.  A not-to-be-named company took six months to fix a problem
we had with storage allocation back in '86.  The work-stoppage almost
caused us to dump Ada totally back then.  We got really good at
playing darts though :-)  Maybe if we had owned 200 copies of their
compiler, rather than just one...


>If you want to reach me, I can be contacted at (619)793-0245, or FAX
>(619)793-5374, or email to ada_info@pcada.com. Contact information
>for other Ada vendors is available from the Ada Information 
>Clearinghouse.
>

Jim, has anybody told you that spreading FUD for commercial gain on
the Internet is considered bad form?  

If GNAT was so awful, why has SGI committed to it, "lock, stock, and
barrel"?  If gcc (a FREE compiler) was so awful, why is it that
NeXTStep is built entirely from gcc?  Linux?  Oh, wait, that's a
"toy" OS, right?

Jim, my advice is this:  Focus on what's _good_ about your product.
If it's a good product, people will buy it (maybe even myself).
We're no dummies, but we _can_ be put off when you attack "the
competition", even if it's a free "toy".  Don't make it look like
you're afraid of GNAT -- it only arouses more curiosity :-)


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