[fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] fpc course

kapibara kapibara.pas at aol.com
Sun Jul 6 06:29:06 CEST 2014


Thanks for the reply, Sven. I'll be back later this year about how it 
went. :-)

On 2014-07-03 07:52, Sven Barth wrote:
> Considering that Embarcadero had used FPC itself for their first 
> version of FMX on iOS support I doubt it that they have any problems 
> with us existing and copying them.
> Additionally FPC has its roots mainly in Europe while Embarcadero is 
> an American company. It's way harder to shut us down because of that.
> Also when we implement things in a Delphi compatible way we avoid 
> looking at the source or at least have one look at the Delphi source 
> and describe/document it and another one implement it which is called 
> Clean Room Reverse Engineering.
>
> So I wouldn't worry about this. Even if Embarcadero should decide to 
> take actions against us (which I strongly doubt) I don't think that 
> we'd go down without a fight. ;)
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
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