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Re:Clang and FSF's strategy by dded on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @08:37AM (#7102432)
I'm not part of the Ada world, so I don't actually know, but I thought the important Ada compiler(s) were also proprietary.
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Re:Clang and FSF's strategy by jordigh on Wednesday January 22, 2014 @09:48AM (#7102760)
Ada is one of the poster children for early GPL success:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNAT#History

They also sell GPL exceptions, which I think is a good thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7027926

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