Re: [Firebird-devel] IB, Firebird, Borland, etc.

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Martin Lohse wrote:
> 
> You forget about the many, many developers who have products relying on the
> current API of Interbase. Our company relies on third party products which
> would be broken if FireBird suddenly neglects compatibility issues.
> 
> Our product was designed when IB was open sourced. We wouldn't be able to
> sell our products with the new pricings of IB. Luckily FireBird has come to
> the rescue. If FireBird was to change core compatibility, our product would
> become useless, i.e. our company would be out of business.

API-compatibility is relatively easy, so don't worry about that.
It will be enhanced, but existing calls will work.

 
Frank

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