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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.megapath.net!news.megapath.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:11:50 -0500 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <80733$434fd8b0$49951a4$23477@ALLTEL.NET> <1129369145.676257.240480@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Licences Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:15:51 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4952.2800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4952.2800 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.32.209.38 X-Trace: sv3-1BXPw4wl3Z9vjHps+4k8+NkTIwUnkXal5qNW6cVM1jPnPbM06tCra3wyLa7KETq/Al5+bTZColorc0o!DphJ3oeD5p5ioi3TbdX//0lMp8KHTSJheQ+CtkCnlx/dNTAqhgGKmOd9FiUiFoSRMaVRzYwpTZbO X-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5762 Date: 2005-10-17T19:15:51-05:00 List-Id: "Martin Dowie" wrote in message news:diqjlf$j15$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com... ... > I would have thought that this was an ideal opportunity for an Aonix or > an RRS to step in with a personal $0-zero support version of their compiler. > > Aonix do have one but the restrictions it imposes are so large that you > can't develop anything of any note on it. > > RRS do ship a low-cost compiler but when you can get a free > C/Delphi/C++/Java compiler, it is hard to justify even that small amount > - and a lot of student simply can't even afford <$100 - especially when > there is a new iPodWhatever every 6 months! ;-) > > Surely, a $0 compiler, that could be used outside of the GPL, would open > the Ada world up to many more people and that in turn would create > demand for paid-for products and/or support? We've thought about it on several occasions. But there are parts of our Windows package that we don't own (and we have to pay royalities on), and those would have to be replaced by something else in order to make a free version available. We could easily do it with our Ada 83 MS-DOS compilers -- but who cares?? We're still thinking about it, and perhaps at some point something will be available. But don't hold your breath waiting... Randy.