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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:5004:: with SMTP id e4-v6mr708848iob.120.1524217370751; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:42:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:2281:: with SMTP id y1-v6mr591671ota.14.1524217370627; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:42:50 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!f63-v6no905228itc.0!news-out.google.com!u64-v6ni1614itb.0!nntp.google.com!f63-v6no905221itc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 02:42:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.9.244.44; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.9.244.44 References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <917a8362-4a72-4c09-bce5-4fa5fd64bdff@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 09:42:50 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 3141 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2827326908 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51640 Date: 2018-04-20T02:42:50-07:00 List-Id: > Correct me if I am wrong, but basically your message is: >=20 > <<< > I want to make money selling my software, but I certainly don't want to p= ay anything to any other software provider for this. They should all give m= e for free what I need. > >>> Not necessarily. The message might be as well: <<< I want to make money selling my software, and I have *tons* of free solutio= ns to build upon. In such an rich (pun intended) ecosystem, I do not need t= o consider anything that does not fall into this group. Heck, there is so m= uch of everything, that I don't even have time to consider everything that = is free, so why bother considering something that is not free? >>> > Does your own software even have a free version somewhere ? It does not need to. Very likely somewhere there is already a free version = of the same thing, anyway. Which means that most likely it is not the softw= are that he is selling [this is actually very important]. > If yes, then your message becomes much more consistent It is very consistent already. The guy needs free bricks to build his syste= m and he will get them. Because there are so many of them to choose from. Y= ou might argue that Ada is better, but in order to understand why it is bet= ter he needs to invest his time, which involves a certain cost with UNcerta= in return. It's even worse - he would need to invest his time, so that you = can convince him to later invest his money into your compiler. This is doub= le cost then. In the world where so many things are *free* *now*, this just= does not make any sense. That's why he is not your future customer. The days of paid compilers are over. Disclaimer: I have described the reality, not preached it. --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com