[Lazarus] The future of desktop

[Michael Schnell]

On 11/30/2013 01:44 PM, vfclists . wrote:
>
> The 'desktop' for Delphi developers where many FreePascal  come from 
> basically means Microsoft.
AFAIK, the mother of the Desktop is X11, which IIRC was invented by 
Xerox (for headless Unix boxes).

Using the siblings of same, we now have KDE and GNOME (and several more) 
in Linux.

So IMHO Microsoft was a copycat (as always) but very successful (as 
always).

-Michael