Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released

["Peter Hend�n" <phenden@tdab.com>]

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Robert Dewar wrote:
> The only people who are affected by this policy are non-customers who want
> to build proprietary software, or those who want to build tools and
libraries
> for such parties, and they have never been on our radar screen.

> The only comunities we are interested in helping are our supported
customers
> and those developing free software products for use in entirely free
software
> activities.

I guess some of my "arguments" as well as some of those of others in this
thread could be summarised as being about broadening the user base of
Ada. Isn't what's good for Ada good for ACT?

Personally I use the public release of gnat as a means of "getting Ada in
the door", and a GMGPLed license for the XML package would have helped
immensely. As for my own XML package, well that isn't quite the same thing,
since with that I can no longer say "and look - if this proves to be good,
you can get support for all of this from a stable company, with (cross-)
compilers for most platforms you can dream up, and what-not".

I am glad to see you back, Mr Dewar, I hope it's not just a temporary
thing.

Regards

Peter Hend�n