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From: Ronald Cole <ronald@ridgenet.net>
Subject: Re: gnat-3.10
Date: 1997/06/17
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pontius@btv.vnet.ibm.com (Dale Pontius) writes:
> You seem to mistake postings here for official bug reports. Read
> ANY documentation on GNAT, and you'll find out that it is provided
> as-is. If support is required, and if GNAT is a critical part of
> your business, then you should become a paying GNAT user. Then you
> will get support.

Please learn to follow a thread.  I posted early on that I reported
this bug several months ago and got back a patch from Richard Kenner
but that it didn't seem to do the trick.

> You call ACT money-grubbing because they're not giving you free
> support. I call them downright generous because I have access to
> their software for free, even if it is unsupported.

I call them money-grubbing because Robert is constantly bringing it
up.  "I'll tell you it's broken it if you pay me" probably isn't such
a hot marketing strategy...  Nowhere did I say I needed it fixed now;
but, it will need to be fixed if ACT is ever to have customers on the
pa-risc platform.

In fact, it may already be fixed; but I'm guessing it isn't.  My
original post only attempted to asked if ACT will have time to address
it for the 3.10 release, because they clearly didn't for the 3.09
release.

Robert then replied that there was nothing wrong with the 3.09 release
and proceeded to spew venom at me; forcing me to demonstrate that, yes
indeed, there is something wrong with the 3.09 release.

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