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This was found in a comment on Eric's post on open source and IDE's which refelected on Delphi for sale. There is an online petition asking Mark ShuttleWorth to buy Delphi and release it as free software. Nice. But.......

In my goodbye to Delphi post I mentioned some things hindering the further evolution of Delphi:

• Need for backwards compatibility
• Staying alive in the eco system of Borlands tools

Delphi is now freed from the latter. Releasing it as open source will satisfy the first. But imho the Spirit of Delphi torch is now in Chrome's hands.