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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-22 20:08:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!btnet-peer0!btnet!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 11:22:10 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <5ee5b646.0204200830.2bd258d2@posting.google.com> <7wjw8.6355$Bl5.3716799705@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <3CC207BA.5F039C6D@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1019488937 26842 136.170.200.133 (22 Apr 2002 15:22:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Apr 2002 15:22:17 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22954 Date: 2002-04-22T15:22:17+00:00 List-Id: I remember the days when acquiring an Ada compiler required maybe five to six figures and you couldn't run them on just any old PC. Now I can download GNAT at no cost from a modest PC and it installs without much fuss and basically works. Am I going to complain because I can't afford ACT support for my hobbyist/hacker projects? Not likely. Nor do I feel like I really *need* much support for the things I'm doing. If ACT wants to make any version of GNAT available to the general public at no cost, more power to them and thanks a lot. Its more than I had pre-GNAT. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Richard Riehle" wrote in message news:3CC207BA.5F039C6D@adaworks.com... > > Someone once described a difference between conservative and a > liberal this way. The conservative throws a rope toward a drowning > man but makes him swim part of the way to reach it. A liberal throws > the rope directly to him and lets go of the rope before he reaches shore. > What do you call someone who throws the rope, requires the drowning > person to swim for it, and then lets go of the rope too? > > ACT, when working on behalf of its customers, throws them a rope and > requires them to do their part. This seems an appropriate business > model. > Free GNAT is a rope that has no one holding it at the shoreline end, > and you still have to swim a little bit to use it properly. > > Richard Riehle > > > >