Greetings,

I just want to make something clear. Some of the discussion going on from some of the people are questioning the evaluation by MVC and what is provided or not provided with FreeCLX.

Please understand that this isn't speculation. Michael Swindell was kind enough to give us an advanced notice of where FreeCLX is located and allow us access to it. The announcement from Borland will be forth coming in a day or so (sometime this week) about FreeCLX being on SourceForge. This isn't a preliminary, alpha, beta, or what have you. This is what they are putting out as being the Open Source portion of Kylix that they are calling FreeCLX. What we are seeing is all that there is. (Unless they have forgotten to put something there) :-)

MVC took some time to checkout the source from CVS as it stands to evaluate what was included and what was available. I think he did a good job of analyzing what they have provided and it doesn't appear to live up to the concept of being completely open source.

This makes me wonder exactly what they are going to be providing with the "FREE" version of Kylix that they have been talking about. If FreeCLX is this limited how limited will the "FREE" Kylix be. It might be that the only way to really make complete comprehensive apps might be if you actually purchase a copy of Kylix. One might hope that that isn't the case but it makes me wonder. :-\