At 01:07 AM 8/15/00 -0400, you wrote:

> Again, Jim doesn't seem to have any clue that old bad times can be reverted
>to be new good times for IB inside Borland. As he is the original
>implementor of IB, not suprise he was strong feelings about the product and
>strong personal opinions of how Borland manages it.

How about releasing the driver on an "open source as long as you are not
borland/inprise or paying borland/inprise for interbase support" license.
If this driver is first to market, it should become fairly widely adopted,
and Inprise would then have great trouble selling support for interbase.

The license could also have a clause saying that wherever the contains code
by inprise wording appears, there should be further wording, possibly
linking to a web site of the full interbase@inprise history. The continuing
embarassment for inprise should be a lever in getting them to remove that
stupid modification to the MPL.

Robert Munro
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