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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.50.23.100 with SMTP id l4mr4416459igf.1.1433933539593; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.23.50 with SMTP id 47mr34870qgo.24.1433933539450; Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no962061igd.0!news-out.google.com!4ni359qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z60no342300qgd.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 03:52:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6b263478-857e-4ed5-b8d0-bb51a08c754e@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=2001:7e8:d634:1701:30f3:be32:7a4f:214c; posting-account=sDyr7QoAAAA7hiaifqt-gaKY2K7OZ8RQ NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:7e8:d634:1701:30f3:be32:7a4f:214c References: <38b9b922-f17d-493a-8be8-607acd93a67e@googlegroups.com> <072ab529-b9cd-446f-ba14-84cde592c1bc@googlegroups.com> <878ubvqhiw.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1745406b-1307-4366-acd7-e0e1decc2f77@googlegroups.com> <6b263478-857e-4ed5-b8d0-bb51a08c754e@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem with GPS and Generating Body from Spec From: Laurent Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 10:52:19 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:26249 Date: 2015-06-10T03:52:19-07:00 List-Id: 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