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From: Laurent <lutgenl@icloud.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with GPS and Generating Body from Spec
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2015-06-10T03:52:19-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca98cbb0-14b5-4fa3-88cd-f42cf0290843@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b263478-857e-4ed5-b8d0-bb51a08c754e@googlegroups.com>

I have to admit that the gpl-gnat vs FSF story is confusing me. With the gpl one you are not as free as one might believe. The FSF one is better but only if you don't use some tainted libraries from Adacore. 
I am not a programmer and never will be. I have no CS background and I hate math. So I will never get some certified piece of paper. So I will probably never have to care about the license because I won't develop some offical program or whatever.
I am learning Ada because I like the language: it is easy to learn (some parts of it) and it doesn't look like math.
So as long as I get access to the necessary tools for free and they work I don't care where they are from. Natural selection will do the rest or preventing by artificially stoping it with a lot of money.
I don't know if Simon is doing the work for FSF all alone. If it is a oneman show (respect) and there is no one who can/will continue, well that would be the end of the story.
Adacore is repeating the errors Apple made in the 80's. Only that Adacore has no Steve Jobs to save them.

Laurent

  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-10 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-05 20:13 Problem with GPS and Generating Body from Spec Laurent
2015-06-06  1:55 ` Anh Vo
2015-06-07 20:29   ` Laurent
2015-06-07 22:29     ` Ludovic Brenta
2015-06-08  9:27       ` Laurent
2015-06-08 12:53         ` Laurent
2015-06-08 14:37           ` David Botton
2015-06-08 19:37             ` Laurent
2015-06-09 10:16               ` Simon Wright
2015-06-09 19:18                 ` Laurent
2015-06-09 21:38                   ` David Botton
2015-06-10 10:52                     ` Laurent [this message]
2015-06-10 17:13                       ` Simon Wright
2015-06-08 19:51       ` Randy Brukardt
2015-06-08  7:56     ` Georg Bauhaus
2015-06-08 22:43 ` wowwomenonwheels205
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