From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne) Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470194151 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fp5na$loj$1@cf01.edf.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Complaints-To: abuse@GigaNews.Com X-Trace: sv1-45SlcKYHfbyRiSFWKtfKN75czfBKMjiAoRXnrPsAwtd0xRe2n/cJ+DQ09LAAmvlX/aBN2duiP8IM3f5!TJUjIJ86fA== Organization: Giganews.Com - Premium News Outsourcing Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: cbbrowne@hex.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 19:53:43 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 08:58:44 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > >Russell Senior a �crit dans le message <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com>... >>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dewar writes: >> >>Robert> Indeed the whole point of the GPL is to avoid the >>Robert> disadvantages of the proprietary model of software. >> >>Perhaps you could explain a little bit more about how it is in the Ada >>Community's interest to not share the GPL'd commercial and wavefront >>releases of GNAT. Not being a member of that community, it is the >>part I don't understand. > >That's not a problem since members of the Ada community understand >that part :-) Hmm... Sounds to me like a situation where there start to be entertaining definitions of what "The Ada community" is. "A *true* member of the Ada community is one that properly understands the release strategy and agrees with it. Anyone who doesn't understand obviously isn't part of the community..." -- Fatal Error: Found [MS-Windows] System -> Repartitioning Disk for Linux... (By cbbrowne@hex.net, Christopher Browne) cbbrowne@ntlug.org-