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From: Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>
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Subject: Re: and visual library once again
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:08:34 +0200
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Bob Spooner a �crit :
> "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1129927622.825849.56200@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> 
>>You need to arrange to get the money ahead of time. The way to do
>>this is to get prospective users of the program to put up the money
>>to fund your development. Then when the work is done, everyone gets
>>the program. GNAT itself is a perfect example of this.
>>
> 
> Whenever I've done that, the company that paid for the development insisted
> on ownership of the software for themselves.
> 
AdaControl is a counter-example. Initial development paid for by 
Eurocontrol, then released as free software with shared ownership 
between Eurocontrol and Adalog.

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