From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/16
Date: 1998-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <708ln4$52b$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36275DBF.1E96@Entenhausen.net
In article <36275DBF.1E96@Entenhausen.net>,
Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net wrote:
> Pascal Obry wrote:
> > Of course it is. You have, since more than 1 year, a 3.10p version
available
> > for many platforms !
>
> Many thanks. I've heard that it would be no longer free as there is
> commercial support now.
Well there has been commercial support for GNAT for quite a while now (four
years), but public versions have also been made available periodically for
this period. During the original contract, the DoD required public releases.
After ACT took over, we continued the tradition of making periodic public
releases, and will continue to do so.
In the free software model, there is nothing incompatible about having a
freely available public version, and a commercial version with commercial
support. Different users have different needs. A student wanting to learn
Ada can perfectly well use the public version, and does not need commercial
support.
A large company using Ada for a critical project will almost certainly NOT
want to use unsupported software (certainly we avoid the use of unsupported
software here at ACT itself). And for them the commercial support is what
makes it possible for them to take advantage of the technical capabilities
of GNAT, while still getting good support.
Furthermore, the fees that the commercial customers pay help to support the
continued development and availability of the public version, which in turn
helps support the continued use of Ada, which is to everyone's advantage.
That's the free software model, and it is working very effectively to support
the continued development of GNAT. As those of you who are using 3.11
technology now know, the 3.11 version is a significant advance on 3.10, and
you will all get to see this shortly when we release 3.10p
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar [this message]
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-22 0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
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