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From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 21:00:05 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 20, 9:33=A0pm, 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."