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"Juha Valimaki" <juha.valimaki@xdsloy.com> wrote in message news:<3d5d6c93$1_6@news.newsgroups.com>...

> IMO value of GNAT is in the product, not in a CD or 
> manuals. I am willing to pay _ACT_ for anything (CD, 
> manuals, t-shirt, coffee mug...)

There must be some confusion here. Like Microsoft, we are
a software company, we sell software and support services
for that software, we are not in the t-shirt or mug business!