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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
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In article <psl8f.23408$dW6.22731@trndny09>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> Steve Whalen wrote:
>> From 1994 to 2004 that meant that small shops that must do
>  > proprietary closed source work to survive, but who cannot at
>  > least initially afford a vendor's support were able to use a
>  > commercial quality (but not validated) compiler called GNAT.
> 
> I'm curious. Do you actually know of any commercial software
> written in Ada? That is, a program written in Ada which is sold
> as a non-customized, shrink-wrapped product to multiple customers?

	http://www.ljk.com/ljk/ljk_security.html

> Do any of them show up here in c.l.a?

Yes.

> Are they complaining?

We don't use GNAT.

> I'm afraid that those people for whom you show concern may not exist.

Of course you know that proving their non-existence is not possible :-)