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,LOTS_OF_MONEY 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: 2002-08-24 14:53:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!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: 24 Aug 2002 14:53:47 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0208241353.5f69b4bf@posting.google.com> References: <5ee5b646.0208231805.7f456d4d@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1030226027 29059 127.0.0.1 (24 Aug 2002 21:53:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Aug 2002 21:53:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28375 Date: 2002-08-24T21:53:47+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote in message news:... > Correct me if I'm wrong Bob, but I > understood you to be referring to the public, $0, version of Gnat, which > appears to be the beneficiary of work on (ie, is subsidized by) Gnat Pro. Yes, but the public version of GNAT is not a commercial product by an stretch of the imagination. So I am not sure what the comparison with Microsoft meant. If Microsoft had been giving away a limited version of IE free with the intention of stimulating sales for the non-free $$ version from which they could make lots of money, that's a totally different manner. Free samples are a pervasive marketing tactic after all :-)