[fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

[Mr Bee]

Hi all,
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.
I know that isn't true. Or is it? ;)
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.
Thank you.
Regards, 
–Mr Bee
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