Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware

["Björn Lundin" <b.f.lundin@gmail.com>]

On 2015-02-02 21:44, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> Can't even imagine what you mean by this. Ada, as tool, will never make as 
> much money as less professional languages. That's because you can't sell 
> ongoing maintance to fix software that works right (and thus doesn't need to 
> be fixed). Thus, there is very little advantage to using Ada as a contractor 
> who makes a living creating software for others.

I'm not clear of if you are talking about creating Ada compilers or
creating software using Ada. If the latter, there is perhaps not so much
maintenance in form of error fixes (but they occur too),
but lots of maintenance in implementing changes, as in
changed requirements.

And I know that I'm a bit unusual here, making a living on
a mostly administrative system, but those (WMS/WCS systems) tend to live
for 10 to 20 years, and company business changes during that time,
driving changes. And I find using Ada a big advantage, easing
the change.

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Björn