[lazarus] Has anyone else read this!!!!

Michael A. Hess mhess at miraclec.com
Wed Sep 29 10:59:34 EDT 1999


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> > However, Kylix is not a port of Delphi and CBuilder but a new
> > product using entirely Linux standards and Linux components while
> > incorporating the best features of the Borland Windows development
> > tools."
> 
> This is strange. I spoke to Inprise R&D people and they WILL port
> Delphi to Linux ?
> 
> I have some information from Inprise R&D - which I'm not allowed to
> give you - and it is _radically_ different from what the press
> releases say.

So who is bull sh--ing who? Is the press release bull sh--ing the public
or is R&D bull sh--ing you?

However I guess if there is information from R&D as you indicate above
then it appears that it will not be open source or why not announce it
to the public?

> One more thing: Inprise people look from time to time at source code
> from other developers that develop code in Pascal to see if no-one
> copies their code. Just so you are not tempted :-)

I'm not surprised. This is something I worried about and warned about
months ago.    :-\

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Michael A. Hess      Miracle Concepts, Inc.
mhess at miraclec.com   http://www.miraclec.com






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