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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:07:42 +0200
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"Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> writes:

> Remember that without the GPL, it's likely that some users down the
> road will be denied the ability to exercise the freedoms that ought to
> be theirs. AdaCore has done these users a favor by helping to limit how
> much non-free software can be produced.

Make that "to limit how much free and non-free software can be
produced in Ada". 

The part about free software comes from people who write free and
non-free software or write free software but choose a GPL-incompatible
Free Software licence, but don't want to use entire different tools
for both and thus choose tools that can do both.

-- 
Michael Bode