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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9b30240b5a381bbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-23 07:54:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!proxad.net!noos.fr!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Software Economics was RE: Ada 95 for an ARM-based bare board? Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 07:52:52 -0700 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1030114442 24342 137.194.161.2 (23 Aug 2002 14:54:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Envelope-From: rleif@rleif.com X-Envelope-To: X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <8Ud99.106$vd4.9772331@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.12 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:28338 Date: 2002-08-23T07:52:52-07:00 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.