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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
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"Jedi Tek'Unum" <jeditekunum@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:32313ac1-a8d2-48be-aaf1-6a89d2dc4c77@googlegroups.com...
> On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 2:36:29 PM UTC-6, Randy Brukardt wrote:
>> Perhaps it bothers you that all of the Ada implementations were created 
>> by
>> commercial companies that are trying to make money. But it's rather
>> un-American to be against capitalism. :-)
>
> BTW, For an expert you seem to be confused about truth.

Must be that after 35 years working in Ada that I've forgotten who paid for 
what. Not likely.

> American taxpayers paid for the language creation and the first and now 
> dominate implementation.

If you're talking indirectly, American taxpayers paid for the creation of 
the entire electronics industry. So what?

As far as the standard goes, I mentioned that it was and continues to be 
developed independent of any developer. I was clearly talking about 
implementations.

And as far as the implementations, none of them have had any significant 
portion funded directly by the government. A lot of the customers were 
government contractors, so one could say that the companies were indirectly 
funded by taxpayer dollars. But a capitalist doesn't care all that much who 
the customers are, just that they can serve them properly. And of course if 
you look broadly, the American taxpayers has paid for a large part of almost 
everything. You could say that about almost any company or industry.

                                       Randy.