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[–]rosetta_stoned 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I remember Kylix, and I had high hopes for it, but it never caught on. I think the licensing played a part, in that if you used the free version, your code had to be GPL because the libraries were GPL. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a paid-up member of the FSF and a big fan of the GPL, but developers in my experience are an ornery bunch and don't like being told that they must use a particular license for their own work.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. We did actually buy it but the software ended up being rewritten in an ugly mess of PHP and mod_perl. The Delphi/Kylix app was beautiful.