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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Ada vendors and the art of selling used cars
Date: 20 Aug 2001 07:34:38 -0500
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In article <3B80FDE0.1020608@___skynamics.com.invalid>, Gerhard =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4ring?= <g.haering@___skynamics.com.invalid> writes:
> McDoobie wrote:
>> In article <3b7fdb8a_2@news3.prserv.net>, "Andrzej Lewandowski"
>> <lewandoREMOVE@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>Ada vendors,
>>>
>>>Could you please publish price list of your products?
> 
> <me-too>Yes, please!</me-too>
> 
>> [...]
>> I suspect the reason they wont list the prices is because it would
>> probably take a real good con-artist salesman to get me to even consider
>> paying what thier asking. It gives me the  impression that they're hiding
>> something.
> 
> 
> (In particular, all the GPL-but-alternative-licensing-available 
> companies  don't seem to publish prices. ACT, Cygnus/Redhat, ...) I did 
> never bother to ask in such cases, because if the price isn't public, 
> I'm instantly turned off. If they won't say, I'm sure it costs way too much.

This is certainly not exclusive to that set of vendors.  OCsystems,
Aonix and Compaq also do not publish the prices of their Ada compilers.

Don't infer that I am defending the practice by pointing out other
offenders.