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Subject: Re: why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense
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Op vrijdag 10 juni 2016 16:16:06 UTC+2 schreef endlessboo...@gmail.com:
> On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 5:10:03 AM UTC-4, Lucretia wrote:
> > Because Sun paid a lot of companies to use it.
> 
> I can beleive that!

Ada is not "free" in the sense of Java.
There is both a GPL version (not to be used for commercial purposes) and a separate commercial version.