[fpc-pascal] Congratulations to FPC!

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007, Cesar Romero wrote:

> I saw 2 threads in borland non-tech and references to slashdot about morfik
> patents:
> "Subject: Morfik Patents AJAX Compiler"
> Is that what you guys are celebrating?
> I saw too that is  a application patent not applyed yet, but I dee desagree
> with this kind of behavior, not yours, but from morfik,
> hope never need to use this software.

Do you think Borland has no patents ? 
Probably 10% of the lines of object pascal you write, will use a patent of Borland.
For example, event handlers are patented.

Does that stop you from using Delphi or Object Pascal ?

Patents are a meaningless concept, and serve only to make money.

Michael.