From: foo wong <crap@spellingbeewinnars.org>
Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:44:08 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03f3400f-a6d2-4c02-bf96-962912b2c4ffo@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7eb81f02-b843-4da9-89d2-951cf56e8362o@googlegroups.com>
Hi Everyone
My name is Patrick, not Foo, I am just trying to keep Google off my trail. I have been posting here for 8+ years.
I just wanted to say that I am very happy to read this thread.
I have wrote several disparaging posts about Adacore and my take on the situation was:
- GNAT Pro: professional support, more targets.
- GNAT Community: Lower level of quality assurance, less targets, and a pure GPL license for the run-time for a demoware experience
- GNAT FSF: least quality assurance designed to push users to the community build or Pro ASAP
I hope I was wrong all along and either way, the future just got a little brighter as Adacore's two offerings will now be suitable for free or non-free software.
I don't believe that there is anything illegal about re-distributing GNAT Pro so if the gap in quality was so large between Pro and FSF, I think one paying customer might take pity on us eventually and release Pro to the world and reset the gap for a while.
With dark days setting in for the avionics industry(for a while at least), maybe Adacore will eventually reconsider and will release Pro as their FSF offering to broaden their user base.
-Patrick
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2020-07-24 21:42 AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition Wesley Pan
2020-07-25 2:17 ` Stephen Leake
2020-07-25 10:35 ` Stéphane Rivière
2020-07-27 8:36 ` Fabien Chouteau
2020-07-25 10:35 ` Stéphane Rivière
2020-07-27 8:07 ` DrPi
2020-07-27 8:38 ` Fabien Chouteau
2020-07-28 13:06 ` DrPi
2020-07-28 14:38 ` Shark8
2020-07-28 16:27 ` Simon Wright
2020-07-28 21:34 ` Shark8
2020-07-29 9:44 ` foo wong [this message]
2020-07-29 16:44 ` Simon Wright
2020-07-29 20:59 ` foo wong
2020-08-01 5:32 ` ldries46
2020-08-02 23:43 ` Stephen Leake
2020-08-15 16:38 ` Kevin K
2020-08-16 2:24 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-16 10:08 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-16 12:08 ` Stephen Leake
2020-08-16 12:54 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-19 14:29 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-19 18:09 ` Andreas ZEURCHER
2020-08-19 19:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-19 20:21 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-20 5:48 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-20 6:43 ` Stéphane Rivière
2020-08-31 14:54 ` Vincent DIEMUNSCH
2020-09-01 18:22 ` Stephen Leake
2020-09-01 18:59 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2020-08-19 20:17 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-19 20:19 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-19 20:50 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-19 21:35 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-20 5:53 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-20 6:12 ` st...@cunningsystems.com
2020-08-20 9:04 ` Simon Wright
2020-08-20 5:42 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-20 6:01 ` Roger Mc
2020-08-16 2:42 ` Luke A. Guest
2020-08-17 8:51 ` Stéphane Rivière
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