>
> 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.
IMHO this one is void, since if they realised this, they'd be more
supportive.
> 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.
I think this is the most important part. If they throw something at FPC,
that will at the worst stall us a few years, since we would simply start to
remove infringement, and not pay up to get the product out of the door.
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