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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx18.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: HerrDoktor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Newcomers to comp.lang.ada: welcome and how did you end up here ? References: <30y7w.610628$Lj7.9801@fx22.iad> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 141108-9, 11/08/2014), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 10:25:53 UTC Organization: http://www.NewsDemon.com Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 02:25:53 -0800 X-Received-Bytes: 2073 X-Received-Body-CRC: 4097240798 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23096 Date: 2014-11-09T02:25:53-08:00 List-Id: > Ada market today is essentially owned by one player. If Adacore will stop passing > their work to gcc developers there is no more free in beer Ada compiler. > > There is no way to guarantee what is reliable for the future unless you > control all of it. gcc or Adacore can make license term changes unacceptable > for you. They can stop developing. Nothing is assured. Even if you pay they > can always go out of business. It happened before. > > Karl Peter > True that, but from what I read, they were originally financed by the US Air force and are obliged to release their compiler to the public because of the funding they received. Of course this won't help should they go out of business, but I was under the impression the GPL version was something they had to do. I wouldn't mind paying for a compiler either, from what I hear it is in the range of several 1000 $$ but it may be worth it to get the support contract with them --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com