Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0

[Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com>]

Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> In article <m3669o0y2u.fsf@yakisoba.forte-intl.com>, Ronald Cole <ronald@forte-intl.com> writes:
> > dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> >> This is a fabrication. No such "threat" was made at any
> >> time to any of our customers. We are not in the business
> >> of threatening customers. This is simply a fantasy that
> >> Mr. Cole has constructed (for what reasons I do not know).
> > 
> > I still have our email discussion between you, me and rms from June
> > 1997 where you clearly state that you considered having wavefront
> > sources out in the public to be so dangerious that you would seriously
> > consider not giving wavefront releases to customers who were
> > exercising their GPL rights and giving them to me.  You specifically
> > used the example of Stallman getting steamed that a Linux distribution
> > released an internal version of gcc that he didn't intend for public
> > consumption to support your position.
> 
> So who was the customer who was "threatened" ?  RMS ?

Read it for yourself:

<http://groups.google.com/groups?q=+wavefront+group:comp.lang.ada+author:dewar%40merv.cs.nyu.edu&hl=en&as_drrb=b&as_mind=29&as_minm=3&as_miny=1997&as_maxd=5&as_maxm=12&as_maxy=1997&rnum=1&selm=dewar.871738278%40merv&filter=0>

Specifically, Mr. Dewar said:

"If people started distributing wavefront versions freely, then w [sic]
would probably reluctantly decide to stop making them available, since
it would be clear that their distribution was harmful. That would be
too bad for the cases where they really solve a problem."

Since wavefronts were/are only sent to customers of ACT, it's not too
hard to figure out that this was a veiled threat to them about
exercising their right under the GPL to send me copies.

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