marius adrian popa wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Ann W.
> Harrison<aharrison@...> wrote:
>
>> Michael D. Spence wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> ... since the great politically/correct
>>>>
>>>> imbroglio. But
>>>>
>>> What was the GP/C I?
>>>
>>>
>> After InterBase was released as open source, someone
>> (Frank Schlottmann-Goedde?) found a hard-coded superuser
>> account. Basically, anybody who read the code could
>> take over any InterBase or Firebird database. Jim
>> built patches that could be applied to any InterBase
>> on any platform.
>>
>> Last night as we were discussing the events of the day,
>> we both realized that if we do have a machine readable
>> InterBase 1.0 source from an old backup, it belongs to
>> Embarcadero. Firebird history starts in July 2000.
>>
> Ok then maybe pre 1.0 , and we should talk with them
> also it could be nice to have a good license for manuals
> yes thouse interbase 6.0 manuals
> maybe there is hope
>

That was a major issue. Borland's original intention of releasing
Interbase open source was to cash in on the open source mania. When
that fell they, they took a shot at stock fraud, then accounting fraud.
When all that fell through, they stiffed the company set up to run with
Interbase, threatened legal action to force a name change away from
Interbase, and refused to license the documentation. The new Interbase
company had done a huge revision of the documentation, but without
rights to the 6.0 manuals, the effort was a dead loss.

It was ugly, very, very ugly. Many lawyers.

Forget about the 6.0 manuals and the pre-Firebird release. Nothing to
be gained by going there.

If you have any specific questions up to version 4, ask away. Ann can
take a stab at version 5.

Oh, and there wasn't an Interbase 1.0. It was gds/galaxy 1.0. The
Interbase name came later.


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