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Article #5597Re: Opensource or not?
From: Erwin van den Bosch
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:29
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 20:29
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The biggest problem with Borland over the years is they want to turn left and right and left and right and left ... It was a commercial product it was open source now it's both. They simply don't know what they want. They react on impulse. Ridding on the wind. As i look at the firebird project i see a lot of people doing real open source. Maybe if borlands version of interbase was real open source there never was something like firebird. As i look at firebird i see more future in firebird then the original interbase. More progress. It's no good for borland. They will loose there beatifull product. Why don't say "B" if you already said "A". Make interbase thru open source. Not a commercial product. Just sell support. Why did borland released the source code? just for looking at it? It make no sense if nobody can't contribute to it. If borland regret going open source just tell us (developers). We hate being kept in the dark. Just be open. Does borland really want us to use firebird and not interbase in the end? I can't see the logic of those borlands plans. I wish ther marketing plans were just as good as Interbase makes it query plans :-) Erwin van den Bosch.
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