And how far can you really go towards cloning an existing product before you
are likely to get sued for copyright infringement? here we do have a product
that resembles Delphi's IDE quite closely.
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> Behalf Of Corey Murtagh
> Sent: Friday, 29 December 2000 14:48
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: Re: [DUG]: Lazarus vs Kylix
>
>
> Nic Wise wrote:
> <snip>
> > > I mean from the screen dumps, the source code is practically identical
> > even
> > > to having the component names the same etc.
> > >
> >
> > well, what else ya gonna call a button?
> > TWidgetThingThatsClickedOnAndLooksLikeAButton ;-)
> >
>
> Point(s) taken, but how if you check out their status page:
>
> http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/status.php3?&language=english
>
> It's kind of obvious that they're converting the VCL for Lazarus.
> They have
> a list of all the VCL classes that they want to translate, and as they're
> writing it in Delphi-compatible OP I somehow doubt that it's all
> clean-roomed. In fact I'd be very surprised if you couldn't find a fair
> amount of the Borland/Inprise VCL code in there somewhere.
>
> --
> Corey Murtagh
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