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Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 17:50:56 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
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Szymon Guz wrote:
> Hyman Rosen napisa=B3(a):
>=20
>> Georg Bauhaus wrote:
>>
>>> Steve Whalen wrote:
>>> "One of the guarantees that we make to customers
>>
>>
>>
>> Notice that AdaCore made this commitment to their customers,
>> not to the general public. Another point against those who
>> feel wronged by the GPL-only release.
>>
>=20
> well, so in fact we have no freeware Ada compilers for proprietary=20
> software, no really good and extendible window library, so the=20
> popularity of Ada will never grow up, I think, but maybe I'm wrong.

You are wrong in that
- we have 2 free GNATs, one with and one without GMGPL exception
- good and extendible window libraries (CLAW, GWindows,..., GtkAda releas=
es)