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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-04 10:14:59 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!194.213.69.151!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed.rt.ru!news-stob.telia.net!news-sto.telia.net!194.22.194.4.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Peter Hend�n" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released 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 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:14:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.64.235.46 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 988996486 213.64.235.46 (Fri, 04 May 2001 19:14:46 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 19:14:46 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7169 Date: 2001-05-04T17:14:46+00:00 List-Id: 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