On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a question for the Lazarus/FPC community,
that I got from a another thread in the mailing list
(Lazarus Foundation).
Does someones knows if there's a potential problem with Lazarus
or FPC due to patents ?
Borland, usuallys has an open mind with open source communities.
But, I remember Borland sued M$ for the use of "Delegation"
("Event pointers") as a patent...
As far as I remember, this was for the use of the window handler
to identify an object instance ?
Just remember, I want to avoid a "flame war",
like it happen with my other comment...
No problem. Some remarks:
1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC are
actually enlarging their user-base instead of making it smaller.
3. If you are referring to an 'event handler' as far as I know, mac
pascal has it too.
4. It was just a way to get a lot of cash from M$. They saw an
opportunity, and they used it.
Michael.
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