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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?)
Date: 1999/04/24
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In article <7frqmj$bg6$1@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>,
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> wrote:
>kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
>
>>It seems unlikely that someone with "a specific problem"
>>would be at a point in their own work cycle where they
>>have time to get into the software distribution business.
>
>These days we have an amazing invention called "The Internet" which
>makes distributing software very easy.

Yes, and wouldn't you expect everyone with the previous public
release to have that same 'specific problem'?  And for them,
the only way to get the fix is to become a commercial customer
at which time they magically become capable of dealing with
the other potential problems of the wavefront releases...


  Les Mikesell
    les@mcs.com