<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20130">Hi all,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20208">There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is just a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of FPC/Laz are taken from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20356">I know that isn't true. Or is it? ;)</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20366">Can anybody elaborate on this? I'd like to debunk the allegation but I don't know where to start and the evidence for it.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_26164">Thank you.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20106" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_26098">Regards,</span></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20105"> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20103"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20104"><br></div>–Mr Bee<div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1483325944921_20102"><br></div></div></div></body></html>