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Kylix becomes Open Source?

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Robert Scott Horning

As a reader to Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/), there are some interesting articles that come up, and one in particular refers to an article on ZDNet:
(http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2652581,00.html)

The gist of this story is, essentially, that Borland is releasing some of the source code for Kylix, as least parts of it may eventually become GPL'd... or so the speculation goes.

I have my doubts, but at least they are openly stating that they are supporting the GNOME UI (not that it is news or anything).

In related news.... Borland/Inprise is now simply.... Borland. Who'd know?

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Curtis White
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This is very interesting since Borland had previously said they were supporting KDE. They had even supposedly licensed QT so developers could deploy their Kylix programs on Windows. I wonder where that all stands now (or maybe this is all just speculation in the article).

Curtis

Robert Scott Horning wrote 27 lines
As a reader to Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/), there are some interesting articles that come up, and one in particular refers to an article on ZDNet: (http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2652581,00.html) The gist of this story is, essentially, that Borland is releasing some of the source code for Kylix, as least parts of it may eventually become GPL'd... or so the speculation goes. I have my doubts, but at least they are openly stating that they are supporting the GNOME UI (not that it is news or anything). In related news.... Borland/Inprise is now simply.... Borland. Who'd know? -- Robert Scott Horning Trans-Lux West 1651 North 1000 West Logan, Utah 84321 Phone: (435) 716-8696 FAX: (435) 752-8513 E-mail: _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.miraclec.com/list_archives/lazarus
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Andrew Bednarz
to Robert Scott Horning: As a reader to Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/), there are some interesting articles…
you wrote
This is very interesting since Borland had previously said they were supporting KDE. They had even supposedly licensed QT so developers could deploy their Kylix programs on Windows. I wonder where that all stands now (or maybe this is all just speculation in the article).

They have a license worked out with TrollTech so applications using the CLX can be deployed on windows without having to worry about licensing issues. This is irrelevant to any gnome support. CLX inherently uses QT; They are just adding gnome *support*, not having gtk+ as widget options.

On the same topic I saw Kylix at BorCon2000 in Sydney Australia last week (Im in Melbourne) and all I can say is sweeeet.

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Carlos M. Leite
to Robert Scott Horning: As a reader to Slashdot (http://www.slashdot.org/), there are some interesting articles…

all of this will be in Delphi 6.

Carlos Leite

Curtis White wrote
This is very interesting since Borland had previously said they were supporting KDE. They had even supposedly licensed QT so developers could deploy their Kylix programs on Windows. I wonder where that all stands now (or maybe this is all just speculation in the article).

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