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Re: Bill Todd's comments in Delphi Informant2003-07-12 05:06:30 PM kylix2 JQP wrote: Quote
to express hate for everything related to Kylix and Linux. It is probably said to evoke laughter, except that it is not funny. ;( For the statement to have a merit, the Linux community could just simply prohibit any commercial software to link to libraries and or use any of the hundreds of system applications by the commercial programs. As a matter of fact the license of Linux was specifically modified to allow all kinds of commercial software to use GPL'd resource of the operating system, link to LGPL'ed shared objects and use freely many of the subprograms what make the Linux system work. Now, why the "we don't need no stinkin' commercial software" uninformed stamens sounds to me really ridiculous? Mandrake 9.1 Linux distribution ships with countless application of different type and shape, with different licenses, and many of the applications are 100 percent commercial proprietary applications, if they are so against commercial development as you suggest, then why they take the effort and expenses to provide to the and-user a number of commercial close source products? Well, look on your CD's which comes with your favorite distribution there are many purely commercial application well to be on a subject, for example the is Intel's compiler version 7 which incidentally is capable of compiling GCC style C++ /C source code therefore it is possible to use it to recompile existing Linux applications with this commercial compiler, and yes there is a Kylix 3 trial, regrettably as it is in the current form it is not much of a trail... Unfortunately, Linux developers cannot modify the Kylix 3 archive and/or binaries to make the product work, as they did to hundreds of open source applications, the changes to Kylix has to be performed only by Borland people, because only they can. juliusz -- InstallMade - Kylix-specific installer/builder www.superobject.com/installmade/ Packages: tar.gz, self-installable, RPM, LCR, and creates standalone executables. |