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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
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> - If you're a little guy wanting to write a professional piece of 
> software that you want to sell but it is not mission critical you are 
> somewhat hanging in the air.

10K$/seat makes no sense. Obviously Adacore is not interested in you.

There is a market of deep pockets for Ada (so far), but there is no market of small Ada developers. They have locked customers with deep pockets and  no competence, so they are not interested in other market.

You could argue that such market is shrinking and could die.
So? 
Gnat investment was recovered long ago (did they invest or was DoD's investment?). Now they have no advertising costs, almost no development costs (what they have? a developer? two?) whatever they get from deep pockets is almost net profit. 
Creating a market for Ada small developers would mean to create an ecosystem, compete against other languages. Why should they invest such amount of resources in an uncertain adventure? 

so, when the deep pockets market die, they'll let Gnat die. You are not in the equation.