On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, ik wrote:
> > 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. Maybe I wasn't clear. It's not about big or small. It's about motivation. The motivation for the core people is not to make money. The motivation is to create a superior product. As such, 'business' arguments do not influence the motivation. If people want to make money with it: By all means, do ! We explicitly changed the license to modified LGPL so you can make money ! So please, get rich ! But do not expect us to change our motivation. Changing the name would be betraying ourselves, and all what Free Pascal stands for: a free, Open Source, portable Pascal system. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
