Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

From: Bob Leif
To: Tom Moran et al.
The GNU approach is essentially monopolistic. The ultimate in unfair
competition is to make your product available for free. As opposed to
professional monopolists, such as Microsoft; the GNU approach instead of
maximizing return actually minimized it. Since it saves hardware vendors
considerable expense, the GNU approach is an excellent solution for
them.
Again, I must emphasize that my comments are orthogonal to the question
of making the source code available. I am in favor of the customer
having the information included in the sources. However, I am totally
against anything that would decrease the value of intellectual property.

-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org
[mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org] On Behalf Of tmoran@acm.org
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:50 PM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board?

> ACT, and other Ada compiler publishers can do more for Ada by
> providing excellent products and service to a few satisfied customers.
  It appears, unfortunately, that after the cream has been skimmed off
the top, and the public version of Gnat has satisfied its users, the
remaining Ada market won't support any compiler/tool vendors.