On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 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?
Pascal is no longer a mainstream language. If FPC has success, then
the use of Pascal becomes more widespread. Large software
companies will always want to have a support contract, and
will therefore turn to Borland.
If we are close enough to Delphi compatibility, we encourage people
to develop with Delphi, and offer them a way to migrate to platforms
that Borland does not support (let's face it: Borland is a Windows
shop): They code their stuff in delphi, but can migrate to, or support,
any platform.
So, in fact, you could say we are doing development for Borland.
Apart from that:
The whole event handler patent is too ridiculous to be true;
It's just passing 2 hidden pointers. What is the innovation in that ?
The idiot that approved this patent didn't have a clue what he
was doing. Just like IBM holds the patent on sorting an array...
If I remember correctly, Borland also owns the patent of an
desktop icon for an application. Try to enforce that...
I think Jonas Maebe of the FPC development team could give some more
examples of 'ridiculous' patents. He is lobbying (for lack of a better
word) in the European Parliament to get the idea of software patents
completely abandonded. And rightly so, IMHO.
Michael.
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