[fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Fri Jan 6 20:51:54 CET 2017


On 06.01.2017 16:44, Lars wrote:
> On Tue, January 3, 2017 6:10 pm, Snorkl e wrote:
>> They might with a change of ownership, who knows these days,  but the
>> fact they did use it in the past would not look good for any litigation
>> from some bottom feeder.
> 
> The fact that they use FPC, means they likely reverse engineer FPC and
> apply their own hacks to their own compiler for multiple targets based on
> FPC engineering..
> 
> i.e. they don't even need to reverse engineer FPC, they just have to dip
> their eyes into the source code... And woops, there comes the problem:
> Delphi is likely stealing from FPC too as their eyes have seen what cannot
> be undone... they've peered into the FPC source code guaranteed.. I bet.
> 
> i.e. when they decide to target multiple platforms they have a nice demo
> to look into which already does it: fpc.
> 
> Now I am not trying to insinuate anything here, but "it goes both ways"
> 
> As Michael Van C. once said, why isn't Borland also practicing clean room?
> who is to say, since their development model is closed source, that their
> compiler has no violations in it, that rip from FPC?  With FPC the code is
> open so you can tell. With delphi, it's closed development, so you cannot
> peer into their compiler sources and check to see if there are violations.

Ehm... Delphi's compiler is written in C++, not Delphi as far as we
know. Also their NEXTGEN compiler is utilizing LLVM, something we won't
purely do.

Regards,
Sven




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