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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!novia!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tiscali.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!randhol From: randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:22:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1127171105.496123.178650@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6cFjLy+0$XDn@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1127308937 17794 129.241.210.178 (21 Sep 2005 13:22:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:22:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (FreeBSD) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5001 Date: 2005-09-21T13:22:17+00:00 List-Id: In article , Larry Kilgallen wrote: >But then you would not have a need to "convince some venture capitalists, >or high level managers", which is the remark to which I responded. Sure. My point was that a small firm might not need support, but only GMGPL compiler. However, this does not seem to be for sale at an affordable price. I mean why not just buy a language X compiler off the shelf to make your software in stead of paying serious amounts of money for an Ada compiler WITH support for a year? Especially when the latter would topple the whole economy of the project... Preben