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From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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On 13 Mar, 11:24, Yannick Duch=EAne (Hibou57) <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr>
wrote:

> If you are not that new to this Usenet, you may have learned GNAT GPL is =
=A0
> not the same as GNAT Pro, regarding bugs. Some bugs known for long in GNA=
T =A0
> GPL, seems to be fixed since as much long in GNAT Pro.

And what is the purpose of maintaining this difference?
Is it to motivate newcomers to buy GNAT Pro or rather to discourage
them completely and let them use C++/Java/.NET instead?

As far as I'm concerned, GNAT GPL represents the current state of
technology that AdaCore sells to commercial customers. That is, I can
see it and treat the GPL package for evaluation and then go buy the
Pro package once I decide that I need it. Seems logical to me.

Note: I cannot be wrong in the above. Even if I'm wrong, I'm still
right. This is because I'm the potential customer - if I get the
impression that GNAT is crap, then they just lost the chance to sell
me anything, even if in fact Pro is better than GPL. Lesson: don't
play with impressions, always make good ones.

--
Maciej Sobczak
http://www.inspirel.com/