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: 103376,4509214aa8b1885b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Laurent Guerby Subject: Re: GNAT Support Costs Date: 2000/01/31 Message-ID: <86k8kqowac.fsf@ppp-108-200.villette.club-internet.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 580015975 References: <86ikmn$o9o$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> <86ssls$aim$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> <867lgtm6gz.fsf@ppp-162-235.villette.club-internet.fr> <8718j0$k6t$1@rk-comp.demon.co.uk> X-Trace: front7.grolier.fr 949347938 8251 194.158.108.200 (31 Jan 2000 19:45:38 GMT) Organization: Club-Internet (France) NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jan 2000 19:45:38 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-31T19:45:38+00:00 List-Id: "Rob Kirkbride" 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