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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Personally I really appreciate having quality staff (AdaCore) maintaining the heavy stuff. All the work they do to polish, update, fix, bring new projects to the ecosystem is great and has to be paid somehow. 

I would be quite happy with a "proportional royalties" model. Everyone uses the pro version and pay a ratio of their product profitability (say 1-5%).

The Unreal game engine enforce such a deal. You do not make money, you owe nothing, you do money building on others work, you owe to others.