From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c62a5e526aafd9d4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-25 19:18:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The Hobby Lobby was Windows CE? Date: 25 Sep 2001 19:18:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0109251818.5f6dd078@posting.google.com> References: <9onhgu$9h9$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3BAF77E6.9BDE9102@adaworks.com> <9onvig$f6n$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <3bb05ee7.10496763@news.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1001470702 30373 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2001 02:18:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Sep 2001 02:18:22 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13379 Date: 2001-09-26T02:18:22+00:00 List-Id: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3bb05ee7.10496763@news.demon.co.uk>... They only sell support > contracts based on a minimum number of seats. I would have been quite > happy to pay up to say �50.00 for a boxed copy of GNAT, but it just > wasn't available. If there are others like me then this is a market > that ACT are simply ignoring yet which could provide additional > capital to allow them to provide products at their own risk. Well, as I have noted before, several people seem to put in a lot of energy exhorting ACT to move in this direction (which for many reasons we are not about to do), when perhaps people should put their energy into producing such a product. If you think there is this great commercial opportunity here, by all means grab it and prosper. As I pointed out in a similar post to Robert Leif, the nice thing about Free Software is that you don't have to develop an Ada compiler from scratch to do this, you can start with GNAT.