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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:05 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2011-01-20T21:00:05-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9d1f79b-5ed4-4f96-90ec-46ed469ffe7c@k42g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 82pqrqq3it.fsf@stephe-leake.org

On Jan 20, 9:33 pm, Stephen Leake <stephen_le...@stephe-leake.org>
wrote:
>
> If Ada core is to start maintaining their sources in a more open way,
> that will cost them time, and thus money. This would be an on-going
> cost, not a one-time expenditure. SO there has to be an on-going income
> stream to support that. 1200 users at $10 each, guaranteed for the next
> 10 years, might work. But no one will believe that 10 year commitment.
>
> --
> -- Stephe

Well, they could give people the option to 'prepay' a certain number
of years.
If that was the case the hobbyist might well think, "hey I got a few
$10 bills laying around, I could support a couple of years of GNAT's
Ada."



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21  5:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47     ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46       ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 21:03         ` Simon Wright
2011-01-20 21:56           ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21  0:08             ` qunying
2011-01-21  4:43             ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22  5:09               ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22  6:15                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25  1:29                   ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58                     ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21  7:19             ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21  9:29               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21  9:57                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51                 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26                 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50                   ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40                 ` Marco
2011-01-22 15:29             ` Lucretia
2011-01-21  7:11         ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21  4:33     ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-21  5:00       ` Shark8 [this message]
2011-01-21  6:26         ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05           ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11           ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42             ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41               ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14                 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03  9:40   ` deadlyhead
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