[fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Jan 2 13:27:08 CET 2017


In our previous episode, Mr Bee said:
> 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? ;)

Yes, so study the evidence closely.

> Can anybody elaborate on this?

Other than that it is patently wrong, no, since we don't have his accusations.

> I'd like to debunk the allegation but I don't know where to start and the
> evidence for it.  

Debunk is evidence to the contrary. If he hasn't provide evidence, challenge
him to do so.



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