[lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded

[Cliff Baeseman]

They talked with me about the job thing also...

  I do not have a degree :)

       I guess that means I can't write code.

This means only one thing to me,   "MAKE IT HURT"

Cliff
-----Original Message-----
From: Shane Miller <smiller at lakefield.net>
To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:01 PM
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Van Canneyt <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be>
>To: lazarus at miraclec.com <lazarus at miraclec.com>
>Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:55 AM
>Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded
>
>
>>
>>
>>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Shane Miller wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> >>> Sebastian Günther <sguenther at gmx.de> 09/30/99 01:38PM >>>
>>> Shane Miller wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Borland will not use WINE.
>>>
>>> >>I hope so of course, but why are you so sure about this...?
>>>
>>> I spoke with Michael Swindel and another person at Inprise.
>>
>>Haha. Why then did I have to sign a NDA, if they chat freely about
>>it with you. You have some high connections there :-) ?
>>
>
>I'm not sure why you had to sign a NDA.  I spoke with them around September
>1st or 2nd I believe.  They didn't say I couldn't talk about it....
>
>>> They talked about gtk and qt and how they work and which one we
>>> (the lazarus project) were using.  Also, they spoke about hiring
>>> someone that knew something about the widget set (either gtk, qt,
>>> or whatever) depending on which they chose.  It was quite fun
>>> chatting with them (I don't remember the other gentlemen's name).
>>>  I spoke with Michael via EMAIL and the other guy called me.
>>
>>You plan to work for them maybe :-) ?
>>
>
>They had initially called me about a job.  Since the first contact, the job
>thing never came up again.  I guess I'm not worthy.  :-(
>
>>> They were familiar with the Lazarus project, along with the
>>> Medigio project (whatever it was called).
>>
>>I told them that died a long time ago.
>>
>
>Me too..
>
>>>
>>> They plan on doing something very similiar to what we are doing.
>>> It seems like they have the same ideas and hopes that we have
>>> about the Linux environment and what it could become.
>>
>>True, but I find this contrasts with their plans to work with corel.
>>(but that is my highly personal opinion, based just on what I see
>>on the net)
>>
>>But your information is partially correct. They plan indeed to use
>>GTK or Qt for the VCL. (Which one wasn't sure when I spoke to them)
>>If they use GTK they could use our headers, so I was told :-)
>>
>>AFAIK they are in contact with the Qt team; because it seems that
>>if they want Qt then Qt would need to include RTTI in their objects.
>>(or something of the sort, I don't exactly remember)
>>
>>Michael.
>>
>
>Did they actually FAX an NDA to you and make you sign it?  Must have had a
>more involved conversation with them then.  They seemed to enjoy chatting
>about the new Linux/Delphi project and I found it to be quite fun myself...
>
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