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: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/21 Message-ID: <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469090982 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x11.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: Wed Apr 21 13:44:51 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com>, SpamSpamSpam wrote: > > When someone asks > > for the latest version of PowerPoint, they are not > > asking > > for the development version that some team in Redmond > > is using to test out their latest additions and fixes ... > > Yes indeed, but then Power Point isn't GPL software .... So what? Why should the license under which sotware is distributed affect anything with respect to proper quality control ... or are you under the illusion that if I decide to use the GPL as a license it forces me to distribute untested stuff? If so, this is a misprehension. The GPL is a license for limited use of software, certainly more generous than the corresponding license for limited use used by Microsoft, but again, so what? -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own