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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 17:52:39 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-04-20, briot.emmanuel@gmail.com <briot.emmanuel@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Adacore force the GPL on any software developed using the Community
>> version. See
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>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but basically your message is:
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> I want to make money selling my software, but I certainly don't want to pay anything to any other software provider for this. They should all give me for free what I need.
>>>>
>

Can't speak for the guy you're quoting but I understood his comments had to
do with the lousy compiler situation for Ada. Most individual developers who
don't have a product to ship _today_ cannot afford the multiple tens of
thousands of dollars it costs to buy support for Adacore's publicly funded
goldmine.

And there are not any other affordable compilers for Ada for people who
_are_ willing to pay a reasonable price. Intel sells pretty good Fortran and
C/C++ compilers for about USD 1.250.

The compiler situation today is bad overall, not just for Ada. But it's
particularly bad for Ada.