Re: New Delphi roadmap is coming: NO UNICODE PLEASE!

They could id they followed a different method of marketing.
Anything for linux needs to be inexpensive or free, so they would need
to follow a redhat model.
They would need to release the base IDE(with source) and compiler for
free with no stupid dialog boxes popping up etc. They could then sell
Enterprise/higher end features, similar to the way eclipse works.

It's doable, they might not see huge profits right away, but they would
need to stick with it. If the IDE was truly open the community would
take care of most of the fixes, compatiblilty issues etc.

Then they would need to do something similar to what Sun Microsystems
is doing with it's Solaris Operating Environment. They would need a license
that would deter the possibility of competing companies releasing a
competing
IDE based on their released source code. This license would not be well
recieved
by the Linux community, and only diehard Delphi users would most probably
support it. This is the case with Solaris/OpenSolaris - GPL/OSS zealots
hate its
license with a passion, because it still leaves Sun Microsystems with
absolute
rights to the intellectual property, even though it is an approved Open
Source
License. Competing OSes like Linux/BSD/OSX/etc. cannot benefit from
Solaris innovations, even though they have released their patents and the
license
is essentially Open Source. Sun can sue them.

This, I feel, is the biggest hurdle to this. They would have to release
patents that they hold because Open Source software and Software Patents
do not go hand-in-hand (Sun release thousands of patents when they OS'd
Solaris). Sun's CDDL gives them the right to sue anyone who takes Solaris
code and puts it in a competiting/commercial system (i.e. Linux cannot
benefit from Solaris innovations, etc.).

Borland/CodeGear may be unwilling to sacrifice those software patents and
intellectual properties because what applied to Kylix also applied to Delphi
and C++Builder - they were of similar codebases and Kylix was Delphi 6
running on Wine IIRC. Open Sourcing Kylix would pretty much open Source
the pre-BDS Delphi and C++Builder IDEs also (at least the ones from which
Kylix was built) - unless I am wrong in my line of thinking.

- Nate.


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