Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 11:33:52 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pulse poll at Borland Message-ID: <v04220806b5f76f0c9417@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <xzpk8bygugf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <3073B3378589D411B21600508BAF32AA012345@EXCHANGE> <39D11CB1.78C07758@gmx.de> <v0422081fb5f6cf08806d@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpk8bygugf.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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At 9:33 AM +0200 2000/9/27, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Regarding what you've heard about Borland, maybe you'd be better off > making up your own opinion instead of relying too much on what other > people say. 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. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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