From: Laurent Guerby <guerby@acm.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs
Date: 2000/01/31
Date: 2000-01-31T19:45:38+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86k8kqowac.fsf@ppp-108-200.villette.club-internet.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8718j0$k6t$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk
"Rob Kirkbride" <rob@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I didn't realise you could "buy" the public version - what does that
> actually mean?
Well, when you purchase a CD that has a GNAT compiler on it, you "buy"
the public version. If you choose well, you can make sure some money
is donated to the FSF (some company do that).
> I guess its just the warm feeling that you have knowing that a product is
> supported, but partly from my experience and what you say maybe the 'risk'
> of not having a product that is officially supported will not be too bad.
GNAT is both commercialy supported (for as long as ACT has customers
and is willing to release public versions) and community supported
(ALT, for as long as people are interested in it). It's just that if
you don't have an ACT support contract your "use of the software" is
not supported, but for some "in general" meaning the software is
supported ;-).
> I'm afraid I still believe that ACT have priced themselves out of a certain
> slice of the market, but I'm no business man and its not my company.
Certainly a reasonable opinion.
--LG
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Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-22 0:00 GNAT Support Costs Robert Kirkbride
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Simon Wright
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Jeff Creem
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-01-23 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-23 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-29 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Rob Kirkbride
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby [this message]
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` DuckE
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Craig Spannring
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-10 0:00 ` Rush Kester
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-24 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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