[lazarus] Kylix

[michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be]

On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Florian Klaempfl wrote:

> michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be schrieb:
> > 
> > On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> > 
> > > Quoting the Kylix article:
> > > ...
> > > September 1999, Project Kylix will be a high performance Linux rapid application development environment
> > > that will support Delphi(TM), C and C++.
> > > ...
> > > How can be Delphi a trademark ????? Delphi is a town in Greek and geographic
> > > names (as Delphi it is) can be trademarks (at least in Germany)
> > 
> > I suppose you mean 'can NOT be trademarks' ?
> 
> Yes, sorry.
> 
> > 
> > >  and probably also in the USA! I thought
> > > this is the reason why the project names of upcoming products from Intel/M$ etc are names of
> > > towns, rivers etc.
> > 
> > Hmmmmm. Where is Kylix located then ? On Mars ?
> > 
> 
> What do you want to do with a drinking bowl on Mars :) ???? A kylix is a
> Greek drinking bowl :)!

Where did you find that ? Judging by the history of the Delphi name, they
expect kylix to contain wisdom or what ? :-)

Michael.