At 10:53 AM 12-01-02 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi
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>> Firebird is a separate open-source project, which started from the
>> original IB 6.0 code released in July 2000.
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>Probably I'm way off topic here but...
>Is there any explanation/info why Borland released
>that Open Source edition?

There are bits of history all over the place. Pavel has collected up quite a few items and placed them in the History pages at http://www.firebirdsql.org .

If you want to start a thread on this topic, would you care to move it out of the support forum and take it to the ibdi list? ( http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/ibdi - you can subscribe there.)

cheers,
Helen

>Theo
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