Hi,
Today Lazarus and FreePascal is a strong alternative to Embarcadero's Delphi, every day new people is coming to use this stack. Powerful Cross-Platform compiler and more features are can be found in FPC. I love Delphi but I love Lazarus too.
I use alphacontrols and it's a very strong product… Why Delphi sticked only? In my humilde opinion you can port the Windows AlphaControl theme layer to LCL. I would buy Lazarus version and more people too.
Please developers, think about this.