From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 28 0:37:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 977EC37B423; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 00:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA66576; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:37:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Brad Knowles Cc: Siegbert Baude , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland References: <3073B3378589D411B21600508BAF32AA012345@EXCHANGE> <39D11CB1.78C07758@gmx.de> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 28 Sep 2000 09:37:03 +0200 In-Reply-To: Brad Knowles's message of "Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:33:52 +0200" Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > I haven't use Borland's development packages myself, at least not > anything since some of the original versions of TurboPascal many, > many years ago. However, I am familiar with their overall attitude, > and the fact that not a single whit of unique work has ever come out > of that company -- everything good they've had is something they've > bought from someone else, and then slapped their name onto the > package, with the usual circumstances that it is brought down into > the gutter (along with all other Borland products) in very short time. I'm afraid that's just not true. Go check your facts. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message