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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 14:57:16 -0600
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Date: 2015-02-04T14:57:16-06:00
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"Jedi Tek'Unum" <jeditekunum@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:b09289f2-df64-464b-ab22-def6b2357bdb@googlegroups.com...
> On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:36:29 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
...
>> >Yet I can still use it for my own development for free.
>>
>> And you get what you pay for. :-)
>
> I don't pay for Ada. :-)

Exactly. The best Ada implementations I;ve ever used were never free.

...
> I can see that your gripe is that you make a living selling Ada products
> and services. And indirectly that if Ada can't generate revenue for 
> someone
> that it shouldn't be used. Hence the hostage term I've used.

Replace the word "Ada" by "software" and you'd be corrrect. It's not about 
Ada, it's about any software; if the developer can't make a living from it, 
then it necessarily has to be a secondary project (because everyone has to 
make a living somehow). In which case the quality will suffer.

Part of my objection to your rant here is that you keep making this about 
Ada. It's not about Ada, its about any software with built professionally 
(or, practically any other way). There's nothing special about Ada in this 
regard, there are only a few things that truly are available everywhere.

                                                Randy.