Joost van der Sluis schrieb:

Lazarus and Free Pascal are really driven by volunteers, and so those
who offer support (Like on the LazarusSupport website) have their own
website. It would not be fair to place links to LazarusSupport as if it
was also from the main teams.

It's not a matter of fairness, but a matter of usability. The team provides a software that, for itself, is not very usable for everyday or commercial use. The service providers guarantee the continued use of the software to their customers, and may support their own stable branches. They are not paid for providing the software, instead they are paid for their assurance of usability of the software.

Not to forget that there can exist a cash flow, from the service providers to the developers, for the implementation of requested features or bugfixes.

DoDi


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