Re: ada on linux

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <dale-9CCC2C.14305924052000@news.rmit.edu.au>,
  dale <dale@cs.rmit.edu.au> wrote:
> Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> > A bit of an odd division! But in any case I know of no
> > proprietary Ada 95 compilers on Linux.
>
> I just looked up the word "proprietor" in the dictionary and
it says
>
>    "person having property, owner"
>
> By this meaning I would have said that the FSF is the
> proprietor of
> Gnat, and therefore there is such a compiler on Linux.
>
> ...or have I got something wrong here?


Well most often proprietary in software has been used to
describe software which is only released under restrictive
license terms. I think most people use the term that way.
You are free to use the term anyway you like of course, but
I think you will find that your derived meaning from the
dictionary is not the one that most people understand :-)

I think you may get confused if you regard the english
dictionary as the source of wisdom on the meaning of terms
as they are used in the computer industry!


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