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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
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Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> writes:

> "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Remember that without the GPL, it's likely that some users down the
> > road will be denied the ability to exercise the freedoms that ought to
> > be theirs. AdaCore has done these users a favor by helping to limit how
> > much non-free software can be produced.
> 
> Make that "to limit how much free and non-free software can be
> produced in Ada". 
> 
> The part about free software comes from people who write free and
> non-free software or write free software but choose a GPL-incompatible
> Free Software licence, but don't want to use entire different tools
> for both and thus choose tools that can do both.

Exactly. Personally I'm not interested to use different tool sets for
my hobby than for my professional work (if possible :-)): My skills /
know how had to be acquired painfully and I see sense trying to
minimize the pain quantitatively. On the other side, if I really want
to use a totally different tool to write free software, there would be
a plethora of rather interesting languages and tools which aren't as
standardized as Ada is (like Haskell, Free Pascal - just to name two),
but who would care: After all it would be a hobby only :-).

Regards -- Markus