From: mheaney@ni.net (Matthew Heaney)
Subject: Re: Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic)
Date: 1996/10/11
Date: 1996-10-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mheaney-ya023180001110962030480001@news.ni.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.845036787@merv
In article <dewar.845036787@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:
>"They are in the commercial software business, so again, I can't blame them
>for distancing themselves from the GPL. Commercial shops and the Free
>Software Foundation can happily coexist, not unlike commercial radio and,
>say, NPR. Paying for software isn't a moral issue.
>"
>Nor is paying for software or not paying for software what the FSF and
>the idea of free software is about. As Richard Stallman has gone to pains
>to point out on many occasions, the free in free software is about free
>availability of the sources, and freedom to modify and distribute, it is
>not about paying no money. Freeware where you can get the binary for $0
>but not the sources is just as objectionable as expensive proprietary
>software from this point of view, price is not the issue!
Yes, I agree. Thank you for correcting me.
>If you want a Mac version of Ada 95 with a nice command line free visual
>environment, then by far the most practical route is to take either the
>existing GNAT port, or the Intermetrics Java version, make as few changes
>as possible to the core compiler technology, and work on embedding one of
>these existing compilers in a nice environment. That approach could succeed
>at reasonable cost (perhaps 1-2 person years of effort).
A ray of hope! I guess I've got a lot of homework to do, eh?
matt
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Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-27 0:00 Ada to byte-code compiler works as advertised Mike Stark
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-03 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler ...) Vince Del Vecchio
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-05 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-06 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Hosting Ada on Mac (Was: Ada on the Mac) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Robert Dewar
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Ada and Mac (Was: New version of AppletMagic) Laurent Gasser
1996-10-08 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney [this message]
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Laurent Gasser
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-15 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Stan Shebs
1996-10-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-10 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-11 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-14 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-16 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` jim hopper
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Steve Wall
1996-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Jim Easterbrook
1996-10-23 0:00 ` Anita Holmgren
1996-10-24 0:00 ` Tom Halliley
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-17 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-10-21 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-10-08 0:00 ` New version of AppletMagic (was Re: Ada to byte-code compiler Dr Paul Gorman
1996-10-09 0:00 ` Ada on the Mac (was: AppletMagic stuff) Stan Shebs
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