From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1d6e3c069f70fa5a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newscon06.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.net!newsfeed.pacific.net.au!nasal.pacific.net.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: "Do not use" feature list for GNAT From: David Trudgett Organization: Very little? References: <877jecppv2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <12keizkixzp7c$.1v5nefxoumphe$.dlg@40tude.net> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:BIkmiSnrnqlZ99B5+mSHfNRk8d0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:54:47 +1000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.8.38.141 X-Complaints-To: news@pacific.net.au X-Trace: nasal.pacific.net.au 1124873953 61.8.38.141 (Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:59:13 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:59:13 EST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4277 Date: 2005-08-24T18:54:47+10:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > P.S. What if users of free GNAT grounded a non-profit organization with > some small subscription. If it collected enough money, it could become a > paying customer of ACT, solely to report bugs. > > [Just a guess, I cannot tell if that would be legally possible.] Accepting bug reports only from subscribers seems like a very strange concept... David -- David Trudgett http://www.zeta.org.au/~wpower/ You have never been invaded and never been under dictatorship. So like the frog in the boiling water you may not realize until it's too late that you've lost your capacity to think for yourselves and accept personal responsibility. That is the quiet danger facing America. -- Lech Walesa (Leader of Poland's Solidarity union & President of Poland 1990-1995)