<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'><br><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div class="gmail_quote">FPC and it's core design have been around prior to <span style="">Embarcadero's</span> purchase of Delphi from Inprise. At the point of purchase <span style="">Embarcadero was responsible for objecting to FPC </span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">and they could have avoided said purchase. <br></div><br></blockquote>Andrew,<br><br>that same argument could be made for Oracle's purchase of Sun (and therefore java IP) with regard to Google and Android's Dalvik.<br><br>Java was being open sourced by Sun a few years prior to the takeover. Android was around, with Dalvik compiler and language similar to java, prior to the purchase.<br><br><br>what I'm worried more about is that there are open implementations of the java specification (read: jvm) around. OK, they strive to be api-compliant and implement all the interfaces of the entire JRE libraries and do not tend to cherry-pick features/classes.<br><br>If Oracle wins, then it might be the end of java and java developments alltogether. This being a pascal-oriented mailinglist, I probably should hold my tongue :-), but I would find that sad. (both as a professional and hobby developer)<br><br>Oracle doesn't have the backing of a java-community anymore since they purchased Sun and started dismantling the community processes (JCP). I doubt this move will win them souls.<br><br><br>On the other hand, with the demise of .net and java in a 2 year timeframe, maybe OP skills wouldn't look so bad after all :-)<br><br>(yes, I know, with 10+ years of Delphi experience I still have to explain on every job/networking session that pascal isn't dead - so say we all)<br><br>mvg,<br>Dimitri Smits<br></div></body></html>