Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades

[Szymon Guz <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT>]

Jean-Pierre Rosen napisał(a):
> Georg Bauhaus a écrit :
> 
>> - we have 2 free GNATs, one with and one without GMGPL exception
> 
> That's exactly why I think ACT made a very bad move.
> 
> If you  are a 5 persons company (the ones most hit by the current 
> decision), you generally have more time than money (those people don't 
> count their hours ;-). You can spend some time building the Gnat you 
> need from the FSF tree *if you are already an Adaddict*.
> 
> If you are a newcommer and just want to have a look at what Ada looks 
> like, you want a ready-to-run distribution. You download Gnat from ACT's 
> site (with some suspiscion: why do these guys require me to fill a 
> form), and then you discover that you are forced to use it for free 
> software only. Immediate conclusion: "Oh, Ada is just for those dreamers 
> of the FSF, nothing like an industrial language". Of course, these 
> people do not make the difference between Ada, Gnat and Gnat-Pro.
> 
> Conclusion: it is a real disservice for the promotion of Ada that will 
> not bring one single extra customer to AdaCore.
> 

right, and when you want to buy GNAT from AdaCore, then you are told 
that you have to buy at least 5 licences (you cannot buy 2 or 3), the 
price is 14.000 euros (+ 7.000 euros for GTKAda), so you've got to pay 
21.000 euros for licence for 5 seats. In my opinion this is too much, 
and some people that I talk to wanted to develop software using Ada2005 
and GTKAda as it was good, cheap and very good. Now the turn towards 
Delphi|Builder as it is much cheaper.