On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> > 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.
Well, long time ago, Michael Swindell (If I have the name correctly)
from Borland actually said so when he was on a Live radio broadcast
where Lazarus was presented (Michael Hess should be able to confirm
that). I know that this has no legal value, of course. :-)
But: it's one thing to "tolerate", it's another to actually help.
> > 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.
Exactly.
Michael.
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