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Subject: Re: AdaCore's survey regarding the future of GNAT Community Edition
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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 sit=
uation was:

 - GNAT Pro: professional support, more targets.

 - GNAT Community: Lower level of quality assurance, less targets, and a pu=
re GPL license for the run-time for a demoware experience

 - GNAT FSF: least quality assurance designed to push users to the communit=
y build or Pro ASAP

I hope I was wrong all along and either way, the future just got a little b=
righter as Adacore's two offerings will now be suitable for free or non-fre=
e software.

I don't believe that there is anything illegal about re-distributing GNAT P=
ro so if the gap in quality was so large between Pro and FSF, I think one p=
aying customer might take pity on us eventually and release Pro to the worl=
d 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