> 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.
> > Hi!
> > Just curious... That is interesting that you think 2.
> > I would expect it would making their user-base smaller.
> > What is the logic behind your assertion?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Márton Papp
It can make the sales lower or the sales higher. In my case I was going to
maybe buy Kylix
a year ago to try. FPC was good enough for my linux needs. So Borland lost a
sale.
On the other hand, many FPC users have a copy of Delphi - which means that
possibly the
more FPC users, the more delphi sales. However, if FPC is good enough - it will
in fact
decrease sales of Delphi. As long as FPC team keeps up their attitude that FPC
is "just a
hobby" FPC will never decrease the Delphi sales. If people start using FPC more
seriously
and not "just a hobby" it will in fact decrease Delphi sales. Now that there is
no Kylix
left at this time, FPC fills that void and does not affect sales in the Linux
arena of
Borland, since Borland currently has no linux arena.
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