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It makes better sense when you put it that way.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Mark.<br>
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 8/13/07, Michael Van Canneyt <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org"><michael@freepascal.org></a> wrote:
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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.
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<pre wrap="">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.
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<pre wrap="">The project itself is still a (serious) hobby. Maybe hobby is a bad word.
Driven by idealism, and non-commercial in principle.
Just like e.g. a foundation can be non-commercial, go for a
idealistic goal, and still can have scores of (paid) employees.
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That is more or less what I wanted to get across, yes.
Thanks, Marco :-)
Michael.
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