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From: Pete Ballmer <pballbeatsemall@microshaft.com>
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Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT?
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:03:22 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-11-12, Randy Brukardt <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately, if it is like most of David's other software, it won't work 
> on other Ada compilers. (That is a common problem, not really picking on 
> David here, a lot of supposedly Ada software is really GNAT software.) That 
> locks you into GNAT, and as you note, the costs for getting regular support 
> for GNAT are not really affordable.

This is an issue with all of FSF's proprietary stuff generally not just
Ada. What percentage of "C" code written for Linux and NUXI is actually
really C rather than gcc? Not very much. It's bad for the ecosystem when
code only compiles under one toolchain. FSF knows that and that's why they
create all these extensinons. It's just another smarter form of vendor
lock-in and it's hard to understand why people accept this.

It takes a lot of discipline and expense to write portable code and all the
gxx stuff makes it tempting to do otherwise. You _will_ be fsfimilated!

Peter