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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada is getting more popular!
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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:52:58 +0200
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:12:20 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On 10/24/10 11:21 PM, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
>> But we are in another area there : GPL efficiently killed little companies and standalone developers
> 
> First, I doubt that this was the GPL; some businesses might
> have suffered from the GMGPL.
> 
> Care to mention a few numbers, or even company names if possible,
> that were killed by GNAT alone?

They weren't killed, they moved into different business. It is the market
of compilers which was killed.

> As for existing companies offering compilers,  you have mentioned
> RRSoftware, there are more Ada companies, some of them offer
> compilers at quite the usual prices. You'll have to ask, though.

I doubt that there is a single company which earns anything from selling
compilers. Those who sell or give compilers for free refund from somewhere
else.

This model (also known from Socialism) is not sustainable, so we are
observing the number of compilers for all languages declining, not just for
Ada.

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de