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From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
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Subject: Re: GWindows and a future home for it
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Date: 2004-10-06T11:13:35+01:00

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Marius Amado Alves writes:
> 
>>Two dimensions, different aspects, these words imply that you can
>>have any combination of {open, close} * {free, charged} (one of them
>>being the unfeasible open and charged, unfeasible because the minute
>>you open it, someone will put a copy for free on the Internet, bye
>>bye business).
> 
> 
> Not true; look at Ada Core. Have you ever been able to get your hands
> on GNAT Pro without paying for it?  And even if you did, that would
> not stop Ada Core from doing business.

(Nice trick to keep the thread on topic :-)

As far as I know GNAT Pro is distributed under a proprietary license. 
So, irrelevant.