Miroslav Penchev wrote:

>
> We all are legendary warriors in commercial world, we are building and
> supporting an absolutely free product competitive to all others
> commercial (and semi-free) products. Why you guys are so "strongly
> against" the "legend" :(. It matches almost perfect to Firebird, our
> mission, our community, the open source idea. I cannot think for
> something that matches better to us. We are not ordinary guys - we are
> building and supporting a legend!

The legend for me is some unverifiable action that happened in the distant
past. It can come from imagination, it can come from exaggeration of some
historical event, it can come from rumor, etc.

When we list companies that were customers of the old IB, for example, it's
not febrile imagination. Someone should be able to tell us whether those
companies did or didn't use IB. If some example is wrong, it should be
deleted.

Take the opposite example: the Abrams tank. It's hard to prove facts when it
comes to important weapons. It's supposed that it carries an IB
installation. Who can verify it? A Borland employee claimed once that they
got a support call from Kuwait in the wartimes. Was this employee
authoritative or did he possess reliable information? Would you ask the
Pentagon to say yes or no?

A legend casts doubts over the real capabilities and usage of a product. I
don't like it.

C.