From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:33:46 -0500
Date: 2011-01-20T23:33:46-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82pqrqq3it.fsf@stephe-leake.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: op.vpl3ipw8ule2fv@garhos
"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:
> And why not promote some funding from other users ? Let say 1200 users
> of the GPL version, each funding $10 e year (relatively accessible),
> this will reach the level of pricing for GNAT Pro on Windows. Try to
> negotiate with AdaCore for a special kind of contract on this basis.
> Is that an valid option ? This would not offer a full-support GNAT
> obviously, but this may help to get more (very probably).
Ada core is in the business of selling support for Ada tools.
Trying to support 1200 users on $10 each is simply not possible (as you
say).
If Ada core is to start maintaining their sources in a more open way,
that will cost them time, and thus money. This would be an on-going
cost, not a one-time expenditure. SO there has to be an on-going income
stream to support that. 1200 users at $10 each, guaranteed for the next
10 years, might work. But no one will believe that 10 year commitment.
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-- Stephe
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 21:03 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-20 21:56 ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21 0:08 ` qunying
2011-01-21 4:43 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22 5:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22 6:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25 1:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 9:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21 9:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40 ` Marco
2011-01-22 15:29 ` Lucretia
2011-01-21 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 4:33 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2011-01-21 5:00 ` Shark8
2011-01-21 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11 ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03 9:40 ` deadlyhead
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