We must realize that a college teacher/software engineer willing to use Lazarus at her classes/work is an ally. Sometimes she is having a hard time convincing her superiors that it's Ok to use Lazarus because, you know, version numbers are irrelevant. For the seasoned free software user, it makes no difference -- but for faculty staff or employees, it does.
2009/12/1 Michael Joyner <[email protected]> > Marco van de Voort wrote: > >> That's why a lot commercial software aimed at bulk user have yearnumber >> versioning, and open source projects not. Even the major distributions >> (only >> Mandrake and SUSE, that rely on selling versions have) >> >> > Hrm.. Have Ubuntu or Year based style versioning would make it easier to > convince faculty to use it for teaching puposes. > > IOW If you change to it, you make it easy to understand for a group that >> is >> not the target audience, which makes no sense. >> >> > Who is choosing the target audience? > > -- Atenciosamente, Alexsander da Rosa Linux User #113925 "Extremismo na defesa da liberdade não é defeito. Moderação na busca por justiça não é virtude." -- Barry Goldwater
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