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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition
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Jeff Creem wrote:
> More likely though is that it will add to the GPL is a virus and push
> companies to Greenhills...

That's not necessarily a bad thing - having heathy competition between Ada
vendors will keep their offerings to their customers from becoming stale and
unsupported. It keeps Greenhills in the Ada game and (presumably) provides
revenue to SofCheck to keep them in it too! Ditto for Aonix.

Cheers

-- Martin