From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,df1a7f1c3c3bc77e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.addix.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 20:17:17 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <463B7BBF.4080603@obry.net> <1178365901.15069.22.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1178530853.6103.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b60988.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1178561838 26030 87.182.9.136 (7 May 2007 18:17:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 18:17:18 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15619 Date: 2007-05-07T20:17:17+02:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus writes: > Still, I wouldn't dismiss the idea so soon. It might need a small > amount of paper work to get a cooperation going on the > customers' side, and perhaps an informal negotiation > of a probationary period with a vendor. But if this setup turns > out to be viable for both you and the vendor, why not? You could found a cooperative, buy a commercial GPLed-with-Exception Compiler and Libs and send copies to every member of the cooperative. I doubt the vendor would like the idea. -- No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment. -- R.A. Heinlein