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Hi Simon

I am not trying to be confrontational, it's just that you supported this exact statement a year ago:


https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.lang.ada/demo-ware%7Csort:date/comp.lang.ada/cdCDljZtBVg/GF8CmMJ6AQAJ


> It's not that I am missing a feature, it's just that I am tired of
> Adacore's games and I want to have independence from them. I feel like
> they are trying to make free Ada compiler options "demo-ware" for
> their expensive paid options.

Why are you surprised?

-Simon Wright 8/24/18


GPL'ing everything and participating on github does not make them hostile to free software. It's just that they had the same software under GPL that was under more permissive licenses before, why the license change unless they want to force a paid option?

-Patrick

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