OT: Any hope of RedHat buying the IDEs from Delphi?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 2/9/06, Marius Andreiana <mandreiana.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 12:18 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> >         > According to this article:
> >         > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1922016,00.asp ,
> >         Borland is
> >         > looking for a buyer for their IDE products. As someone who
> >         first
> >         > programmed in Turbo Pascal, and then in Delphi, I would love
> >         to see
> >         > these tools working flawless in Fedora.
> > Anybody in RedHat here listening?
>
> I'm sure they have much more important things to spend money on
> (developers of gcc, gcj, eclipse, openoffice, mono...)
>
> If you are so interested do it Blender-style: setup a site to gather
> donations and discuss with Borland their price; be the first to
> contribute at least $1k. But please don't ask Red Hat to buy and open
> source every piece of software (I've seen request for licensing mp3),
> they are doing already more than enough.


Fair enough. I get what you are saying.

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