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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-23 19:05:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: 23 Aug 2002 19:05:36 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208231805.7f456d4d@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1030154736 28214 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2002 02:05:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2002 02:05:36 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28357 Date: 2002-08-24T02:05:36+00:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif" wrote in message news:... > The ultimate in unfair > competition is to make your product available for free. Well one would have to agree that if someone is making a product free, subsidizing it from some other income source, that can be unfair competition. However, Robert Leif seems to have some completely bizarre view of how Ada Core Technologies operates that bares not even a slight resemblance to reality. Our product, GNAT Pro, is a high quality Ada compiler tool set, with a direct guaranteed licensed status from Ada Core, and with high quality support, including immediate updates to correct problems, continual enhancements in response to customer needs, and special customization to meet the needs of customers. Despite Bob's strange statements, this product is not free. In fact there are a fair number of threads on CLA from time to time complaining that we charge much too much for this product, and urging us to make some low cost product available. Now this is not something we are about to do, but in fact, we are so far from a monopoly that if someone wants to compete with us and make some other product based around the GNAT core technology, they are free to do so! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies I think the confusion is so great, that it is probably impossible to cure :-) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies