On Tuesday 05 January 2010 07:03:22 am Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > Hi, > > For those users that want to browse Kylix 3 IDE (for whatever reason) > - maybe to port one or more features to Lazarus IDE (lets think > positive), or to compare and see how great Lazarus IDE has become. Or > to compare the Kylix compiler to the Free Pascal compiler for > compatibility reasons etc. I have made my copy of Kylix 3 Open > Edition available to everybody. I included in the archive my > activation file and some unofficial fixes. > > Kylix 3 Open Edition is the freely available one for GPL based > software development. I still see numerous requests for Kylix 3 Open > Edition on various internet forums - though I always recommend FPC and > Lazarus to them. I couldn't find any active location on the internet > to download Kylix 3 OE, so looked through my old archive CD's and > found it. I also emailed Borland and Embarcadero, because you cannot > use Kylix 3 OE if you don't activate it, and the activation URL > mentioned in the Kylix 3 product doesn't exist any more - but neither > Borland nor Embarcadero has the facility any more to activate the > product (no surprise there) - hence the reason I made my activation > file available too. > > This is they typical reason I HATE any activation software - perfectly > legal software that becomes useless because the vendor went out of > business or the product got discontinued. Also, SourceForge.net has > numerous projects developed with Kylix 3 OE, but cannot continue any > more because Kylix 3 OE is not available for download. > > If you ever need a copy, email me in private and I'll send you the > download URL. It's about a 97MB download. If anybody knows of a more > public location I can upload this file to, please let me know - I have > a serious limit on internet bandwidth. > > Borland cannot complain - Kylix 3 Open Edition was free for all to > start with. I purchase Kylix 3 Pro and Kylix 3 Enterprise from them > (though these copies or not for public download obviously) so they > already got my money (and what a waist it was). I hate to see projects > like on SourceForge wither and die because the development tools are > not available for download.
In the following site http://download.borlandforum.com/kylix/ http://download.borlandforum.com/delphi/ you may find Kylix and Delphi related files open to public . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
