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Below is the text of an email I sent to David Intersimone, he who writes
on the Borland Museum pages. Email was sent on 6 January, reply is still
outstanding, Borland really cares for its customers...

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Hi David,

This is a question with regards to the Borland Museum & BP7.

I'm one of the people who downloaded all your museum piece compilers,
except TP2, which I already owned. The only one still missing from my
collection is now TP4 (and the TP6.01 maintenance release).

Getting TP3.02 was especially nice, as I only had the plain TP3.01A (no
8087/BCD support) version, bought way back in the mid eighties.

Of course, as a user of the TP6 Professional & BP7 versions, I don't
really have much use for them.

The latter of these two, BP7, has, as you may be well aware, a nasty
little bug that shows up on fast machines. I've recompiled my RTL, so
it doesn't hurt me anymore, and there are many other patches and
replacement units around to do the same, but Borland doesn't really
want to know.

My question? Would it be possible for Borland to make the source of
CRT available, under the same conditions as the old compilers, or
possibly with even less restrictions (GPL?), so that we, the users, can
make our own optimized/non-RTE200 versions freely available. Your
current no-nonsense agreement already allows distribution of the
binaries, but distributing the source is explicitely forbidden.

However, given the fact that both Delphi 1 (with the complete VCL
source!) and Delphi 2 have been made freely available as magazine cover
CDs (at least here in the UK) I'm of the opinion (but who am I?) that
you would create a lot of goodwill by doing the same, even if only on
your own site, for the CRT source.

Looking forward to your reply,

Regards,
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Robert
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Robert AH Prins
prinsra@willis.com


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