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: 103376,4ffc4a297a9f10e0 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:51:48 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <62c8c6c1-6578-4e61-b68a-2c192f34aa94@f20g2000prn.googlegroups.com> <1456fbc5-f951-4721-8575-0b73a492f275@r29g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <80886810-73e0-4eea-88e3-6653afc2f45b@a28g2000prb.googlegroups.com> <16s3pyt9fvzw0.1tpjaer6keqof.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:51:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="vslmL83UgSXHD8TS0/yPxA"; logging-data="23220"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+p/35wKMDYMH+d9eL+nAey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <16s3pyt9fvzw0.1tpjaer6keqof.dlg@40tude.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:BKGvAiMz9eZSUjYciEZiWHmG2+Y= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16607 Date: 2011-01-21T14:51:48+01:00 List-Id: Le 21/01/2011 10:29, Dmitry A. Kazakov a �crit : > I think that AdaCore should probably modify their business model in order > to have something between the FSF for 0 and Pro for 15K. Many small > businesses and private persons would promptly buy Linux or Windows GNAT for > $100-500 without support +, say, $25-50 per upgrade. This would not compete > with GNAT Pro, because, my guess, Pro targets rather embedded and R-T > solutions, e.g. VxWorks and standalone, or impose no additional costs. > I discussed that in the past with Robert Dewar. His answer was: "We are not in the cheap compiler business". -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00