-----Original Message----- From: To: Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 8:05 AM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded > > >On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Cliff Baeseman wrote: > >> They talked with me about the job thing also... >> >> I do not have a degree :) >> >> I guess that means I can't write code. > >I don't see what the degree thing has to do with it ? After all, >if you can write code and proved that you can do something, why not ? > >I know some high-placed (read: well-paid) programmers that have NO >education at all, but who work with PC's since they were 12 or so, >and so have a lot of experience. That's why they were hired. > >Michael. > >_________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus >

From: Michael Van Canneyt To: Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:55 AM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded > > >On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Shane Miller wrote: > >> >> >> >>> Sebastian G�nther 09/30/99 01:38PM >>> >> Shane Miller wrote: >> > >> > Borland will not use WINE. >> >> >>I hope so of course, but why are you so sure about this...? >> >> I spoke with Michael Swindel and another person at Inprise. > >Haha. Why then did I have to sign a NDA, if they chat freely about >it with you. You have some high connections there :-) ? > I'm not sure why you had to sign a NDA. I spoke with them around September 1st or 2nd I believe. They didn't say I couldn't talk about it.... >> They talked about gtk and qt and how they work and which one we >> (the lazarus project) were using. Also, they spoke about hiring >> someone that knew something about the widget set (either gtk, qt, >> or whatever) depending on which they chose. It was quite fun >> chatting with them (I don't remember the other gentlemen's name). >> I spoke with Michael via EMAIL and the other guy called me. > >You plan to work for them maybe :-) ? > They had initially called me about a job. Since the first contact, the job thing never came up again. I guess I'm not worthy. :-( >> They were familiar with the Lazarus project, along with the >> Medigio project (whatever it was called). > >I told them that died a long time ago. > Me too.. >> >> They plan on doing something very similiar to what we are doing. >> It seems like they have the same ideas and hopes that we have >> about the Linux environment and what it could become. > >True, but I find this contrasts with their plans to work with corel. >(but that is my highly personal opinion, based just on what I see >on the net) > >But your information is partially correct. They plan indeed to use >GTK or Qt for the VCL. (Which one wasn't sure when I spoke to them) >If they use GTK they could use our headers, so I was told :-) > >AFAIK they are in contact with the Qt team; because it seems that >if they want Qt then Qt would need to include RTTI in their objects. >(or something of the sort, I don't exactly remember) > >Michael. > Did they actually FAX an NDA to you and make you sign it? Must have had a more involved conversation with them then. They seemed to enjoy chatting about the new Linux/Delphi project and I found it to be quite fun myself... ------------------------------------------------------------ Shane Miller Get paid to surf the net! http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DEX-870 Home page : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller Auto-IP Publisher : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller/autoip Advanced Clipboard : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller/advclipboard Lazarus : http://www.miraclec.com/lazarus ----------------------------------------------------------

-----Original Message----- From: Shane Miller To: Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 12:01 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded >-----Original Message----- >From: Michael Van Canneyt >To: >Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 3:55 AM >Subject: Re: [lazarus] Why the FLC/Lazarus/KCL development should bespeeded > > >> >> >>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Shane Miller wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Sebastian G�nther 09/30/99 01:38PM >>> >>> Shane Miller wrote: >>> > >>> > Borland will not use WINE. >>> >>> >>I hope so of course, but why are you so sure about this...? >>> >>> I spoke with Michael Swindel and another person at Inprise. >> >>Haha. Why then did I have to sign a NDA, if they chat freely about >>it with you. You have some high connections there :-) ? >> > >I'm not sure why you had to sign a NDA. I spoke with them around September >1st or 2nd I believe. They didn't say I couldn't talk about it.... > >>> They talked about gtk and qt and how they work and which one we >>> (the lazarus project) were using. Also, they spoke about hiring >>> someone that knew something about the widget set (either gtk, qt, >>> or whatever) depending on which they chose. It was quite fun >>> chatting with them (I don't remember the other gentlemen's name). >>> I spoke with Michael via EMAIL and the other guy called me. >> >>You plan to work for them maybe :-) ? >> > >They had initially called me about a job. Since the first contact, the job >thing never came up again. I guess I'm not worthy. :-( > >>> They were familiar with the Lazarus project, along with the >>> Medigio project (whatever it was called). >> >>I told them that died a long time ago. >> > >Me too.. > >>> >>> They plan on doing something very similiar to what we are doing. >>> It seems like they have the same ideas and hopes that we have >>> about the Linux environment and what it could become. >> >>True, but I find this contrasts with their plans to work with corel. >>(but that is my highly personal opinion, based just on what I see >>on the net) >> >>But your information is partially correct. They plan indeed to use >>GTK or Qt for the VCL. (Which one wasn't sure when I spoke to them) >>If they use GTK they could use our headers, so I was told :-) >> >>AFAIK they are in contact with the Qt team; because it seems that >>if they want Qt then Qt would need to include RTTI in their objects. >>(or something of the sort, I don't exactly remember) >> >>Michael. >> > >Did they actually FAX an NDA to you and make you sign it? Must have had a >more involved conversation with them then. They seemed to enjoy chatting >about the new Linux/Delphi project and I found it to be quite fun myself... > >------------------------------------------------------------ >Shane Miller > >Get paid to surf the net! >http://alladvantage.com/go.asp?refid=DEX-870 > >Home page : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller > >Auto-IP Publisher : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller/autoip > >Advanced Clipboard : http://www.lakefield.net/~smiller/advclipboard > >Lazarus : http://www.miraclec.com/lazarus >---------------------------------------------------------- > > >_________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus >