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=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9cc9076c49da0ab3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Ada, Qt & Swig Date: 2000/10/18 Message-ID: <8skt19$bk2$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 683004725 References: <971791272.88660@edh3> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x52.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.240 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Wed Oct 18 19:18:11 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-10-18T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= wrote: > Qt is a commercial product - more 'sellable' to the Ties. I assume by Ties you mean Suits (either this is round trip idiom, or it is an expression I did not hear before). In fact GtkAda is a commercial product, and one that we have found very good reaction to. If you are claiming that the "Ties" are happier with proprietary software, all I can say is that this is getting less and less true these days, and the notion of selling supported Open Source Software is getting more and more familiar and attractive to a lot of users. Which makes sense, it is somewhat odd for purchasers to actively prefer more restrictive licenses :-) Also an interesting point here is that in these days of interest in COTS, open source COTS is attractive, because it addresses two of the major worries about COTS: 1. Being glued to one source of support 2. Being unable to change or modify the software if necessary Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies (a company that successfully sells commercial open source software :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.