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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,344332f209947007 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewarr@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Gnat Free ? Date: 1998/10/17 Message-ID: <708n5d$7ds$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 401967177 References: <6volj0$250$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> <3620F843.39465221@home.com> <3621E42C.2920@Entenhausen.net> <700rfc$6h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3627196D.720A@Entenhausen.net> <708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <87pvbs6zb3.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x13.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Oct 17 00:08:13 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/2.02 (OS/2; I) Date: 1998-10-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Andi Kleen wrote: > Ronald Cole writes: > > > > Of course, I've always secretly wondered if Dewar would shutdown his > > business completely if every one of his clients started giving out > > wavefront releases... > > Unlikely. If someone is willing to pay big $$ he is usually is seriously > interested in support. And the others wouldn't give money anyways. I doubt ACT > would lose much sales if at all when they were a bit more open with their > releases. The advantage ACT would receive instead is more testing > which gives better software which translates into paying customer > satisfaction which generates more money in the long run. That's absolutely right, I don't think it would affect sales one way or another, but as I explained in my previous note, that is not the reason for our hesitation to prematurely do public releases of insufficiently tested versions of GNAT. We are perfectly aware that there are enthusiasts who would like to get their hands on the latest technology, and don't care if it has problems. But that is not the public we are addressing in making public versions of GNAT available. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own