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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades
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Steve Whalen wrote:
> From 1994 to 2004 that meant that small shops that must do
 > proprietary closed source work to survive, but who cannot at
 > least initially afford a vendor's support were able to use a
 > commercial quality (but not validated) compiler called GNAT.

I'm curious. Do you actually know of any commercial software
written in Ada? That is, a program written in Ada which is sold
as a non-customized, shrink-wrapped product to multiple customers?
Do any of them show up here in c.l.a? Are they complaining?

I'm afraid that those people for whom you show concern may not
exist.