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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126868191.519850.18060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <873bo5jjb6.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:31:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1126902673 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:31:13 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:31:13 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4810 Date: 2005-09-16T20:31:13+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > I don't think that current paying customers of > I think that the only ones who are really hurt by > AdaCore's decision are the SMEs and individuals who want to write > commercial software in Ada, but don't have the money to pay for > AdaCore's (or other companies') support contracts. And also those who distribute free libraries under the GMGPL or other free non-GPL licenses. But I think AdaCore may have overlooked that small companies sometimes grow into big companies. A company that is below AdaCore's radar today may be big enough to become a customer in a few years, but not if they have to choose C++ to get a good development environment. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu