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From: erlo <erlo@valid.not>
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Subject: Re: Augusta: An open source Ada 2012 compiler (someday?) (Off topic)
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 23:41:28 +0100
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On 03/20/2014 07:13 PM, Shark8 wrote:
> On 19-Mar-14 11:56, Tero Koskinen wrote:
>> One alternative approach could be to persuade one of
>> the existing Ada vendors to open source their compiler;
>> perhaps even create a (kickstarter) project to collect
>> the money required for it. (Like it was done for Blender.[4])
> 
> Hm, anyone want to buy the rights to Rational from Atego and modernize
> the R1000? ;)

IBM bought Rational at some point in time, did they sell it? I know that
the company I work for got more than one R1000 through IBM.

Erlo