[TriLUG] Ford Drops Windows for their Sync System

[Ric Moore]

On 02/26/2014 11:37 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2014 01:24:53 -0500
> Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 02/24/2014 03:29 PM, William Sutton wrote:
>>> Netscape -- polluted their own codebase so badly that they opened
>>> it up to open source developers to clean up the mess.  they
>>> scrapped it and made Mozilla, now Firefox, which has itself become
>>> a bloated mess. WordPerfect -- quality product that Novell bears
>>> some additional responsibility for killing
>>>
>>> I'll also toss Borland out there.  People I know who used Borland's
>>> compilers tell me they were superior to Microsoft... but Borland's
>>> long been out of that business.
>>
>> Wasn't Borland a bit pricey back when?? Ric
>
> No, the pricey part came later. Back in the 1980's Borland compilers
> were between $29 and $69. In the mid 1990's, which is the time this
> discussion pertains to, Borland compilers were, IIRC, around a hundred
> bucks, and in every case less than their Microsoft counterpart.
>
> Borland as a big bux wannabe big iron glass house fetish came after
> Microsoft had demolished the Borland business model with (innovation |
> antitrust).
>
> By the way, if you're at all interested in Borland, check out
> FreePascal and Lazarus. Both free software, both should be available
> with your package manager. FreePascal is pretty much a Borland Pascal
> workalike, and Lazarus is pretty much a Delphi workalike.


I haven't messed around with code since they took the line numbers out 
of BASIC. <grins> Back when I was typing in games from Creative 
Computing and struggling to get them to run on an Apple ][. Then, "file 
sharing" became "the thing". Yoho! :) Ric



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