From: "G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
Subject: Re: Why GPL for GNAT hurt(s) the Application Space
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:37:49 +0200
Date: 2014-10-09T12:37:49+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m15oht$t7l$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02c3b60f-9b1a-486a-82b2-351c4ef2589f@googlegroups.com>
On 09.10.14 00:09, David Botton wrote:
> No one wants to waste their time and until I felt I had a viable tool suite that didn't have the GPL virus in it, Ada was out for public projects for me.
If there is a desire to not have that source based reciprocity
(however asymmetrical it may actually be) shouldn't this create
an opportunity for a compiler company to offer a judiciously priced
Ada 2005 compiler?
That is, whenever the "sales department" can reliably determine that
- a $$$$ support contract won't make sense for this customer,
- support will, by agreement, be based on goodwill, or none,
at the discretion of the company
- use will, by agreement and in fact not become freeloading
(as has been the case, apparently, at AdaCore)
- no misdemeanor needs to be expected, like overzealously
comparing compilers' features in public
they would offer a command line tool for less than VS Pro, say.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-06 0:46 Gnoga the "Killer App" for Ada David Botton
2014-10-06 5:42 ` Thomas Løcke
2014-10-06 8:05 ` tonyg
2014-10-06 8:25 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-06 10:29 ` David Botton
2014-10-06 23:20 ` Shark8
2014-10-06 23:44 ` David Botton
2014-10-08 7:22 ` dptrash
2014-10-08 8:53 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-08 9:32 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 13:17 ` David Botton
2014-10-08 15:47 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-08 16:03 ` David Botton
2014-10-08 17:55 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 19:05 ` David Botton
2014-10-08 19:40 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-08 22:09 ` Why GPL for GNAT hurt(s) the Application Space David Botton
2014-10-09 9:21 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 11:31 ` Björn Lundin
2014-10-09 10:37 ` G.B. [this message]
2014-10-09 13:18 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 14:43 ` G.B.
2014-10-09 17:11 ` Simon Wright
2014-10-09 17:54 ` G.B.
2014-10-10 5:30 ` Pascal Obry
2014-10-12 0:50 ` David Botton
2014-10-09 10:57 ` Luke A. Guest
2014-10-09 13:14 ` tonyg
2014-10-08 13:11 ` Gnoga the "Killer App" for Ada David Botton
2014-10-09 19:35 ` Tero Koskinen
2014-10-06 10:17 ` David Botton
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