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]
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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."
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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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