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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.50.85.18 with SMTP id d18mr17230221igz.3.1423009232584; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:20:32 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.165.4 with SMTP id yu4mr183122obb.26.1423009232411; Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:20:32 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!209.85.213.215.MISMATCH!hl2no6992189igb.0!news-out.google.com!qk8ni19782igc.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no6992186igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 16:20:32 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <32313ac1-a8d2-48be-aaf1-6a89d2dc4c77@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad> <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com> <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4984c229-bdcd-4032-bd88-cde66482e6df@googlegroups.com> <6950687c-7b03-440e-ba15-e1092f86a3d0@googlegroups.com> <32313ac1-a8d2-48be-aaf1-6a89d2dc4c77@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <743d26d4-101d-46df-8292-51e169779bb0@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware From: David Botton Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 00:20:32 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24866 Date: 2015-02-03T16:20:32-08:00 List-Id: > BTW, For an expert you seem to be confused about truth. American taxpayer= s paid for the language creation and the first and now dominate implementat= ion. Actually Jeff was the one who pointed out the full scope of how that went d= own. As I've pointed out many times, history has proven AdaCore's approach harms= the Ada community past and present, but they have not trashed the communit= y and have respected the Open Source movement enough that they have up-stre= amed over time their innovations to the original technology back to the FSF= . AdaCore may not be heros (they lost that status 10 years ago), but they are= not villains by any account. David Botton