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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: "Do not use" feature list for GNAT
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:09:59 +0200
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* Dmitry A. Kazakov:

> P.S. What if users of free GNAT grounded a non-profit organization with
> some small subscription. If it collected enough money, it could become a
> paying customer of ACT, solely to report bugs.

In my dealings with AdaCore, they were very explicit letting me know
that they don't want such support-by-proxy schemes.

Such an organisation should rather fund development on the FSF GCC
tree, IMHO, even though this is somewhat unrealistic because of the
scale of the task.