Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Opensource

>      Was Marc IIRC. Anyway, most of our proposed features appear in time or
>      with a 25-50% overrun. What's absolutely strong for free+open software.
>      And moreover, almost every serious bug, that is fixable without
>      destroying anything else, get's fixed in a couple of days or weeks. The
>      reason for the latter is, that we have a fistfull of programmes who
>      work for years now on the code. Some of us since the release from
>      Berkeley. That are key developers, who know intuitively into what
>      region of the code to dive if some strange misbehaviour is reported.
> 
>      So if Inprise really lost them, they have a severe problem.

Another _big_ issue is how clean the code is.  MySQL, for example,
probably loses tons of people because their code is so poorly designed,
and just plain ugly to me.

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