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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 10:07:35 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de>
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On 10/25/10 9:52 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:12:20 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

>> As for existing companies offering compilers,  you have mentioned
>> RRSoftware, there are more Ada companies, some of them offer
>> compilers at quite the usual prices. You'll have to ask, though.
>
> I doubt that there is a single company which earns anything from selling
> compilers. Those who sell or give compilers for free refund from somewhere
> else.

Support, seminars, standard libraries on request, targeting
new platforms, and all forms of consultancy, as sources of
income,you mean?

> This model (also known from Socialism) is not sustainable, so we are
> observing the number of compilers for all languages declining, not just for
> Ada.

Again, I'll welcome some interesting numbers.