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On 24.09.13 09:49, Bill Richards wrote:
>> It's in the best traditions of pork-barrel capaitalism, isn't it?
> It certainly could have been. I don't understand how they got away with it
> though. Makes you wonder how often this sort of thing has happened.

See Robert Dewar's explanations of their govt. contract, if you
are interested.

This sort of thing happens all the time. There are two forms of
the govt. channeling money to companies, in Ada terms they are
numeric types ranging above and below decimal 0.0, respecively:

(a) through subsidies for companies,
(b) through tax reliefs for companies.

I hope this isn't going to turn into a dispute along the
lower line of the square of opposition.