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From: michael bode <michael.bode@laserline.de>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
Date: 05 Oct 2005 10:58:56 +0200
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"Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:

> [1] Quite to the contrary; the more I hear the "selfish argument",
> the more I feel inclined to package GNAT GPL Edition, just to teach
> selfish people that if they refuse to give, then they cannot take,
> as Georg Bauhaus said so nicely.

Probably you will just teach selfish people to avoid Ada if they want
to program closed source software.

The whole debate would be completly pointless if there was a $$$ "GNAT
Standard Edition" with GMGPL and without $$$$$ support contracts.