Can somebody please convince the dBASE folks (at http://www.dbase.com/)
to GPL that codebase? They just keep hanging on and hanging on . . .

BTW, dBL, the current dBASE language, is pretty cool. I have always
liked it. I just can't keep my code wedded to a proprietary language.
The dBASE promotional materials are stuck in a terminal "just-past-RAD"
phase, and the dBL language is Old School/Extended, but it has some
nifty things (like Dynamic External Objects).


Seth


-----Original Message-----
From: "Luis Forra" <luis.forra@...>
To: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 23:32:36 -0000
Subject: [Firebird-general] Re: The end of Borland

> --- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "Claudio Valderrama C."
> <cvalde@...> wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com
> > > [mailto:Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Geoff
> Worboys
> > > Sent: Domingo, 10 de Mayo de 2009 20:50
> > >
> > ...
> > >
> > > (Assuming this buy-out goes through) I think it is the time
> > > to mourn the final passing, after a long lingering illness,
> >...
> > will pull the railway cars. What's lost is only the money-making
> machine of
> > the shareholders, but they won't lose their money, because they
> will get
> > shares in Microfocus. We have nothing to mourn. Out with the old,
> in with
> > the new (in Spanish: a rey muerto, rey puesto).
> >
> > What could I regret? Only that some mediocre middle level managers
> were able
> > to slip through the filter and made their way into CodeGear and
> thus into
> > Embarcadero.
> >
> > C.
> >
>
> Very well said, after fiasco's like Turbo Vision for C++,
> the paradox engine, DOS powerpack and the successor of Dbase
> that I *don't* want to remember the name. All the respect
> that Borland gained with the original Turbos and Delphi 1
> is long lost. ( Rei morto, rei posto. in Portuguese 8) ).
> The good mistake was the release of Interbase with a
> open license. Now with QT LGPL and a strong/reliable Firebird
> I can see a day without Borland/Codegear/Embarcadero
> licenses in my team.
>
> After attending some technical presentations with the developers
> liaison of Borland, that delivered blatant misrepresentations
> as time proved, I found strange the Embarcadero maintained
> the same staff.
>
> Regards
>
> Luis Forra
> ---