Software patents

[Vassilis Virvilis]

gslink wrote:
>  Borland probably doesn't even 
> realize that Wine exists although some of the people in Borland are 
> probably very familiar with it.  I think you will find this to be true 
> of all big software companies such as IBM and Microsoft.
> 
> 

IRC borland had a delphi for linux named kylix which if I remember 
correctly used wine. They had 2 sets of widgets, native and qt classes 
to ease development and porting. Here is the article. It also mentions 
codeweavers... Really old news.

http://open.itworld.com/4907/IW010305tckylix/page_1.html

So it's not possible that they have never heard about wine before...

    .Bill