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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in message 
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> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>>
>> And if I understand it correectly, a service plan is still something
>> you have to pay per year. I wonder where the 0-cost is there? Or
>> perhaps AONIX should have word with their PR department on that
>> wording.
>
> This is the same business model as AdaCore. You pay nothing for the 
> compiler. You only pay for support.
>

Actually... that isn't true about AdaCore any more.  Unless you plan to 
create GPL software.
Since they removed the GMGPL from the libraries, you DO have to pay for the 
compiler if you want to produce closed source software.

Regards,
Steve
(The Duck)

> -- 
> Jeff Carter
> "Beyond 100,000 lines of code you
> should probably be coding in Ada."
> P. J. Plauger
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