Actually the .Net world has benefited from Delphi. Anders Hejlsberg, the chief architect of Delphi, moved to Microsoft and became the chief architect of C#.
And incidents like these have contributed to the sad, long decline of Delphi/FP. Ever since the large exodus of talented former Borland engineers, Borland, Inprise, CG and Embarcadero management had been exploiting Delphi as a cash cow and milking it FWIW.