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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.180.196 with SMTP id dq4mr2115846pac.47.1420634667942; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:44:27 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.165.4 with SMTP id yu4mr6393obb.26.1420634667578; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 04:44:27 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!h15no543906igd.0!news-out.google.com!h6ni123igv.0!nntp.google.com!h15no543900igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 04:44:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1420626433.2280.357.camel@obry.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad> <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com> <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <79f3eff7-2b45-40ae-af94-fa9a17426d82@googlegroups.com> <87tx03rbr2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1420623515.2280.344.camel@obry.net> <87vbkihp3p.fsf@ixod.org> <1420626433.2280.357.camel@obry.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware From: David Botton Injection-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 12:44:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 2630 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1877778301 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24442 Date: 2015-01-07T04:44:27-08:00 List-Id: > Of course nothing is there forever. But to me an Open Source piece of > software has far more chance to live longer. I agree 100% end of the day a 1 company approach is irrelevant when the pro= duct is available as open source. Many companies "invest" in AdaCore for ne= w development work to the compiler or have maintenance contracts because is= is open source and their support and maintenance dollars are protected lon= g term by it being libre software. =20 > I bet that if a strong needs if felt the community will be there to work > on this.=20 I also agree, the quality of AdaCore's work and frequency of it has general= ly not made it a "need". However there is already much work in the communit= y on the compiler, but most has just been on creating FSF gcc/ada executabl= es since that has been where any "need" has lied. David Botton