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TurboPower's Delphi Components Going Open

Posted by timothy on from the better-than-an-orphanage dept.

Luiz Bucci writes "According to the company web site, TurboPower Software announces their immediate withdrawal from the retail component and developer tools market. As part of the move, TurboPower announces its intention to release their award winning component libraries as open source to the maximum extent possible. The resulting open source projects will be hosted on SourceForge." (SourceForge and Slashdot are both part of VA Software). TurboPower's libraries cover "compression, serial communication, faxing, Internet communication, scheduling, data entry, encryption, and XML manipulation."

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  1. Yawn by ToasterTester · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh boy open source Delphi code. The few people still using Delphi better grab the code fast before all the 3rd parties TurboPower licensed code from crack down. How usefull is the code that's left its Delphi not Pascal. Pascal doesn't support Borland VCL and the weirds things Delphi does to work. Like virturl constructors, invisible windows, hidden application that spawns user application. Yes this is a big annoucement.

    Yawn....

    1. Re:Yawn by ToasterTester · · Score: 1, Troll

      How do you call that a troll??? Those are valid points. Instead of calling me a troll, tell me where I'm wrong.