On 8/13/07, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, ik wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > > > I have a lot more examples of such problems using the "Pascal" and the > > way it "sounds"... > > > > And in the bottom line, it's all about marketing. > > For business maybe.
Also for Open source projects (look for Linux as an example). > > People forget the bottom line; FPC and Lazarus are HOBBY projects > for the core developers. We do not want or need to make money with > them. Otherwise we would not have made it open source in the first > place. > > If you do happen to make money on the side with it: congratulations. > > But do not expect business arguments to have any influence whatsoever > on the core developers. That includes name changes, which are simply > not debatable. The project IMHO is far from only be a hobby, because it catch up additional people, and there are commercial program using that hobby, and if you want believe that is should only be something small,then why do you support so much things, instead of just supporting your own systems ?! it been a long time since it was only a hobby, now it's a project with audience. > > Michael. Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
