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From: Bob Leif
To: Robert Dewar et al.
At the Microsoft store and picnic, there were T shits for sale by
Microsoft.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of Larry Kilgallen
Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 7:03 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...

In article <5ee5b646.0208170214.449bc476@posting.google.com>,
dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) writes:
> "Juha Valimaki" <juha.valimaki@xdsloy.com> wrote in message
news:<3d5d6c93$1_6@news.newsgroups.com>...
> 
>> IMO value of GNAT is in the product, not in a CD or 
>> manuals. I am willing to pay _ACT_ for anything (CD, 
>> manuals, t-shirt, coffee mug...)
> 
> There must be some confusion here. Like Microsoft, we are
> a software company, we sell software and support services
> for that software, we are not in the t-shirt or mug business!

If you are not in the t-shirt business, you are not like Microsoft.