Something I think that has been lost in all this is the effect it will have on Kylix. By day, I'm paid to write windows code and I was really hoping to get in on the 2 for one offered by delphi/interbase on windows and kylix/interbase on linux. I had always considered the open sourcing of Interbase a brilliant move - people would adopt that and then they could pick up the cash selling the best tool to work with interbase.
Now if I convince my customer that they don't need Oracle, and then I have to reverse myself becuase of somebody inside Borland doing a power jerk off, I'll be pissed.
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Something I think that has been lost in all this is the effect it will have on Kylix. By day, I'm paid to write windows code and I was really hoping to get in on the 2 for one offered by delphi/interbase on windows and kylix/interbase on linux. I had always considered the open sourcing of Interbase a brilliant move - people would adopt that and then they could pick up the cash selling the best tool to work with interbase. Now if I convince my customer that they don't need Oracle, and then I have to reverse myself becuase of somebody inside Borland doing a power jerk off, I'll be pissed.