Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.)

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>]

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Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> a �crit dans le message :
87aeidsgr8.fsf@think.mihalis.net...
> "Pascal Obry" <p.obry@wanadoo.fr> writes:
>
> > Here is what I propose. You download all the public releases, you
> > make an MD5 sum of what is there, you publish it in your Web
> > site, you write a paper to certify that version with the MD5 bits
> > is indeed a "safe one to use" (this is easy to do, the ACVC
> > regressions are free).
> >
> > This is the way I see the "open" in "open source", you have access
> > to the source, so you can offer services not covered by the current
> > market.
>
> There seems to be an implication here that I'm after some kind of
> profit in some way related to GNAT technology, or want something

Not at all. You can just offer a free services, I did not use the word
"profit" !

> onerous from ACT, but that's not true. In fact they've already done a
> truly great job and I was just nitpicking. Since I can't seem to
> convey what I was actually trying to say to anyone on this thread I'm
> just going to give up and go back to sleep.

No. My point was just that if there is something you want not covered by
ACT (for whatever reason) you can offer the service yourself. So don't
go back to sleep :)

Pascal.

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