My 5 cents (inflation) Look what happened to Interbase which become Firebird after Inprise had Borland. That was maybe a positive thing! I just don't think the split in the development was so good after the open source part was retracted again after Inprise became Borland again because it confused a lot of people who worked with Interbase. Delphi is definitely a community project even though its commercial considering there are so many 3rd party components available. It may be bad news for Lazarus which is also driving a "Delphi" IDE if Delphi became open source.
Andre van Zuydam Spiceware Software Cosmin Prund wrote: > My 2 cents: > > Maybe Delphi will be bought by some company that would make it open source > using a double license model, something along the lines of Red Hat, SugarCRM > etc. After all Delphi benefits from a very knowledgeable community, very > capable of undertaking changes to the VCL, IDE or the compiler itself! This > way a company would benefit from community effort while at the same time > being able to make a buck by selling commercial licenses. > > Now of course this is wishful thinking on my part... > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
