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Yes, Erwin,
as you say:

> ... They just wanna go back to there
> roots. Development tools. ...

As you greatly point it out with Borland turbo pascal 3:
They started with making the best development tools for a fair price, but
for a price.
This is why we used Borland's tools, and we were willing to pay the price.

Let us go back to our roots!
They do a good job, they invest money and time, good ideas and a lot of
enthusiasm,
why shouldn't we honour that - and pay a little for it?

But if you choose to do it all yourself, the coding or reviewing, the
versioning, the searching and downloading of code pieces and patches.
the compiling and the testing - good for you that there's Firebird.

But if I have to be responsible before my customer for my product and the
database it's using,
I'm glad to have a vendor for that database who shares this responsibility.
I don't want to tell my customer that it was me who ruined the database
software - better I can mention Borland's name.
With the "certified" version they take the responsibility for exactly this
situation.
Isn't this worth some money that firstly I - but at the end my customer -
should pay for it?

I don't know how it is with your customers, but my customers want to spend
money for quality,
they don't want to save money and get no quality.
If they don't explicitly order an Opensource software, I will not take the
risk on my shoulders to give them one.
I like the open world, but I also like implementation hiding and
responsibility sharing, and a complete support for a good customer (who is
also a good bill payer).
Just the same like me as a customer of the good man who's repairing my car
for me. Though I'm better in programming than in repairing cars.

Regards,
Hartmut