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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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* Simon Wright:

> I'm no longer in a position to look at supported versions, but I'm not
> at all sure that Pro is that much better than GPL (treating it as just a
> compiler and disregarding AdaCore's support offering, which is what
> you're actually paying for). I certainly don't recognise Yannick's
> remarks.

And we should not forget that customer support often consists of
finding a suitable workaround, not about fixing the underlying bug.
To some degree, this is what customers want.  I suspect few shops are
able to roll out a new GNAT version to all their developers and across
their build infrastructure without much effort.