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

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