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posted by kerravon E-mail, Ligao, Free World North, 04.07.2021, 10:05

> > If some American company wishes to compete with
> > Microsoft Windows, even in a limited sphere, and
> > makes a decision that they want to close-source
> > their product, and not be subjected to anyone
> > else's license/copyrighted code, what do you
> > suggest they do? Write from scratch?
>
> And how, may I know, do you intend to find out what
> this "American company" will want?
American companies don't speak with one voice.

I target American companies who think like me.

> Perhaps you might want to actually ask some actual companies
> (or individuals), or at least take heed of what these companies say?
I already know what people who think like
me think.

One of them even emailed me to say thankyou.

> The way to help others is to first ask others what they want --- rather
> than continually telling people how generous you are.
I don't remember telling people how generous I am.

> I think your project has good potential,
Well that's an interesting comment - what
potential do you see?

> and I think it is a pity that it
> is simply not going in the right direction.
It started supporting Pascal-derived
programs a matter of just hours ago.

That literally doubled the number of
languages supported.

Supports smaller programs than FPC, and
no copyrighted code (other than the
author's) in the executable either.

Sounds like fantastic progress to me.

And the progress wouldn't have happened
without help from this group either, so
thankyou everyone involved, including
yourself.

> It is as if you are trying to
> reach the South Pole by frantically travelling north.
Note that you will end up at the South Pole
by travelling due north and keeping on going.

Part of the reason for PDOS/386 taking 27
years to develop was because of a mass
diversion of maybe 10-15 years to tame the
damned mainframe.

BFN. Paul.

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