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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
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Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Steve Whalen wrote:

>> From 1994 to 2004 that meant that small shops that must do
>> proprietary closed source work to survive, but who cannot at least
>> initially afford a vendor's support were able to use a commercial
>> quality (but not validated) compiler called GNAT.
>
> I'm curious. Do you actually know of any commercial software written
> in Ada? That is, a program written in Ada which is sold as a
> non-customized, shrink-wrapped product to multiple customers?

Yes.  I wrote one (not completely on my own) for a Danish publishing
house a few years ago.  I don't know how well it sold, but it _was_
sold shrink-wrapped with a nice printed manual.

> Do any of them show up here in c.l.a? Are they complaining?

Yes.  And yes. - But it is a few years ago.  My current work will be
distributed under an Open Source license, but I would like to have the
freedom to advice costumers to select Ada even for closed source
products.

Jacob
-- 
"... there may be many others,
 but they haven't been discovered"             -- Tom Lehrer