[igravious]

Myself as well. I really really liked Borland products. I had an emotional attachment to them. I got Borland C/C++ (3?) as a Christmas present shrink-wrapped one year and I thought it was the best Christmas present ever. Lots of people learned C using K&R's book - I learned C/C++ from reading Borland's manuals.

Long story short, when MS turned the full weight of their organization on Borland and sunk them it opened my eyes to MS's corporate behaviour. That's how I learned that MS always played dirty. It set me out on the road to looking for alternatives to Windows. It's ultimately why I'm writing this in Firefox on Ubuntu.

In ref to the blog post (or whatever it is) I thought Delphi was no more. Just goes to show, here is a link: http://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

[_plts]

WOW. I had no idea.

From 1997: "Borland International and Microsoft have settled a Borland-launched lawsuit that started on May 7, 1997, in Santa Clara County, CA. In the suit Borland alleged that Microsoft had hired 34 Borland employees over the past 30 months in order to steal Borland trade secrets."

Just WOW. 34 employees.