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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it References: <2004100609152216807%david@bottoncom> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 11:50:35 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.77 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1097149835 209.165.2.77 (Thu, 07 Oct 2004 04:50:35 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 04:50:35 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4868 Date: 2004-10-07T11:50:35+00:00 List-Id: Or is it pastel unicorns and gumdrops with flying pixies sprinkling gold dust all over everything. :-) If all it is is a "request", one would think that at least one customer might have said "No" and put the whole suite of things up on a website somewhere. As far as I know, the only stuff that is generally available is the stuff that ACT chooses to release publically whenever they choose to release it. Have they put out any of their cross-targeted compilers or other spiffy stuff, or are they just putting out the general things that are older and no longer generate serious revenue? Mind you, I don't object. Its their software and they have every right to put whatever restrictions on it they like. ACT needs to make a profit and its pretty hard to sell something to someone if they can get the same thing free. "Open Source" in its more zealous form is not what is happening here. ACT is giving away older products that can no longer be milked for large volumes of cash with the hope of expanding their market share. Theres nothing wrong with that - it just means that software is intellectual property that costs money to develop and it has economic value. MDC Marius Amado Alves wrote: > > Ah, yes, the request, sorry, it's not a proprietary license, it's a > request. All is well in open source dreamland. (Pink hearts floating > around.) But wait, you need a request, so open source licensing doesn't > work, does it? Ah, bugger! > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat" -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987 ======================================================================