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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by protomyth on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:03PM (#24494644)
First the last, There were always free ST versions as far as I can remember. The "little guy" could e.g. use "Little Smalltalk" by Budd which appeared before 1987.

No one could write a commercial program with Little Smalltalk. Love the book, but the implementation is not going to work. Heck, Squeak could not do a program that looked anything like a real Windows or Mac program.

Maybe we're talking past each other but the IDE says the community edition is only authorized for GPL software, every other edition is big bucks. https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/comparison

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by Rochus on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:12PM (#24495502)
Well, if you were willing to spend 60$ you could buy a Smalltalk package suited for commercial applications which looked somehow like Windows. But that's not the topic here anyway.

> Maybe we're talking past each other but the IDE says the community edition is only authorized for GPL software, every other edition is big bucks.

Do not let this mislead you. The software is available under GPL. That is all you need to know. And GPL allows you to use the software for any purpose. Maybe I should mention that I studied law for two years and then had one more year of lectures in patent and license contract law (see my profile for more information).

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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by protomyth on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:34PM (#24495825)
Ok, no. Look at the GPL interaction with App Stores. GPL has been debated on HN forever.
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Re:Airbus Chooses GNAT Pro Ada for Development of Unmanned A... by Rochus on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:40PM (#24495892)
I do not understand what you are trying to say. I also don't understand what the current topic of conversation has to do with App Stores.
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