2010/10/19 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.li...@gmail.com>: > Op 2010-10-19 09:07, Vincent Snijders het geskryf: >> >> Yes, but I doubt this possible fork will be, but feel free to prove me wrong. > > Nobody will know, until a fork has been made. As for your opinion that it > will simply fail is a bit of thumb sucking. Some commercial entity could > easily fork FPC, throw 20 full times developers at it, have a nice huge > budget, and take Embarcadero head-on with a cross-platform compiler and > with 32/64-bit support already done. You still think that would fail?
Given the fact that 20 full time developer work on it, I think they have a reasonable chance to succeed. > > Just look at Qt today - it started with 2 developers that thought they > could do better than what was currently out there. Mozilla, a fork from > Netscape - a pretty good success I would think. Eclipse - an idea IBM had, > thinking it would do better that what Sun offered. Firebird DB (from old > Interbase), PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server (comes from the same original > codebase as PostgresSQL did), MS-DOS, MS Office,... Many, many more such > success cases exist. All examples of one person/entity thinking they can do > a better job than the original person/entity. > It can be done, but it must be done, to prove it. Just talk won't do it. Vincent _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
