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Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
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Le Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:29:58 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  =

<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a =C3=A9crit:
>> Too many industrial users (not those who make rockets, but smaller
>> industries) simply use the public version, and it's hard to make them=

>> pay when the public version is OK for their needs.
>>
>> [=E2=80=A6]
>
> I think that AdaCore should probably modify their business model in or=
der
> to have something between the FSF for 0 and Pro for 15K. Many small
> businesses and private persons would promptly buy Linux or Windows GNA=
T  =

> for
> $100-500 without support +, say, $25-50 per upgrade. This would not  =

> compete
> with GNAT Pro, because, my guess, Pro targets rather embedded and R-T
> solutions, e.g. VxWorks and standalone, or impose no additional costs.=


Not only AdaCore could do that, also many others applications too  =

(whisper: unfortunately, the GPL and its assumptions does not help to go=
  =

this way). For GNAT $500 would be far too much for me. $100 would an  =

higher limit=E2=80=A6 while=E2=80=A6 well, with some effort, this could =
be feasible. I  =

would just require a single condition: the =E2=80=9Csynchronized interfa=
ce=E2=80=9D bug  =

fixed :D (I really hate this bug, as you guessed).


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