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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c2e8ba92f29718c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7a (Windows/20040614) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada open source References: <1087312556.728924@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <8uEzc.28968$mz.7216@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> In-Reply-To: <8uEzc.28968$mz.7216@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <8aKzc.29892$mz.3383@nwrdny02.gnilink.net> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:49:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.161.84.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1087336196 68.161.84.150 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:49:56 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:49:56 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1534 Date: 2004-06-15T21:49:56+00:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: > Because one of the biggest player in the Ada market, GNAT, is open source. For being Free Software, GNAT is one of the most commercial-style products around. I'm pretty sure that people with ACT support contracts get tiny but vital features added on request all the time. I don't think GNAT is much of a target for security hackers either.