[fpc-devel] PR advancement

[Michalis Kamburelis]

Ales Katona wrote:
> Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
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>> Ales Katona wrote:
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>>> 2. Can I use Free Pascal/Lazarus for commercial development?
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>> This is the 4th question of current FAQ. And I assume that you 
>> actually wanted to say "closed source", this is not the same thing as 
>> "commercial".
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> If you look at forums and mailing lists, NO people DON'T get it. You 
> need to explicitly tell them YES YOU CAN STATIC LINK WITH OUR ENHANCED 
> LGPL. Honestly the thing in the FAQ is good for lawyers only.
> 

Reading FPC and Lazarus mailing lists, and I don't see such problems. 
And I understood the FAQ, even though IANAL. There's a text

   "It is therefore possible to create closed source or proprietary 
software using Free Pascal."

I think that this is even more explicit (and understandable to 
non-programmers) than your proposed "Yes you can static link with our 
enhanced LGPL".

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>>> 3. Are there any real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus?
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>> I guess that even a "manager" is able to type "fpc" or "lazarus" into 
>> google.
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> And he'll find a bunch of fanboy websites.
> 

So what answer would you propose for the FAQ question "Are there any 
real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus" ? A huge list of 
every program that was ever compiled with FPC ? A short list of "chosen 
projects" ? Who will decide and maintain the list of "most bright 
projects developed using FPC+Lazarus" ?

>>> 4. Why should I use Free Pascal/Lazarus?
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> Which is horribly outdated and utterly useless. Also it only specializes 
> on comparing FP dialect of Pascal with other languages.
> One half of currently listed advantages is basicly a pissing contest 
> against C/C++ and the other is saying "we got OOP/other features too you 
> know".
> 
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Then propose a better text / feature list for "Advantages" page...

Michalis