From: "John Stoneham" <captnjameskirk@moc.oohay>
Subject: Conflicting statements about GPS?
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 21:46:41 -0500
Date: 2002-10-18T21:46:41-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aoqh4j$df8$1@newsreader.mailgate.org> (raw)
I am, surely like most on this ng who use gnat, eagerly awaiting the
any-week-now release of GPS. However, after combing through what I could
find as "official" statements about it (mainly from Robert Dewar), I have
become concerned. One statement clearly emphasised that GPS was "Free
Software", which would benefit from the input of many users, and this raised
my hopes. But the only statements regarding it's release that I could find
referred to those using Gnat Pro, which is not free.
Maybe I'm mistaken about the "Free Software" reference, but I don't believe
it can be properly labled as such if it is only offered "free" to paying
customers. Nor do I think it proper to call it "Free Software" if it is only
intended to be offered for free after a major upgrade to the paying
customers, and the "free" part is the old version made freely available
after a year or more. But maybe that's just me.
And maybe I'm wrong about what the process is going to be, but there is
nothing to tell me otherwise so far. So Mr. Dewar, please correct me if I'm
wrong. I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering.
--
John Stoneham
(to email, reverse the domain)
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-19 2:46 John Stoneham [this message]
2002-10-19 8:12 ` Conflicting statements about GPS? Samuel Tardieu
2002-10-19 10:58 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-19 15:08 ` John Stoneham
2002-10-19 15:34 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-21 7:06 ` Karel Miklav
2002-10-21 7:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-21 17:36 ` Mark Johnson
2002-10-21 18:13 ` tmoran
2002-10-22 4:42 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-10-22 17:24 ` Pascal Obry
2002-10-22 21:46 ` Stephen Leake
2002-10-22 22:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-10-23 1:30 ` Jeffrey Creem
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