[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

[Skybuck Flying]

Well this won't work:

1. People on free pascal mailing list does not mean they use free pascal, 
they just interested in reading about it, and maybe not even that ;)

2. People downloading free pascal does not mean they use free pascal, maybe 
they tried it out and decided it was not for them.

Here is a good idea:

3. Start selling a free pascal distribution with maybe extra "service 
contract" meaning bugs for bussiness users get fixed much more quickly, and 
then count the number of sales LOL ;) :)

Also maybe add extra features for bussiness users, maybe some database 
support or anything else they ask for.

Ofcourse there is also the free user base, maybe hobbists or cheap skates 
lol.

4. Another idea might be to look for applications compiled with free pascal.

5. And finally ofcourse the all spieing eye which counts the number of times 
free pascal gets run by the user and reports it to a website.

I would not feel totally comfortable using such a tool with such a feature !

Definetly too spyie.

6. The number of libraries/components written for Free Pascal.

7. Websites written for free pascal, documentations and such.

Look at all this together I think the reality if pretty obvious free pascal 
not used that much.

Not as much as visual c/c++/c# or Delphi which has a huge number of 
websites.

Let's google a bit:

Borland Delphi: 2.5 million hits

Free Pascal: 2,680,000 hits

--

Delphi Source Code: 2,560,000 hits

Free Pascal Source Code: 2,250,000 hits

--

Newsgroups:

Delphi Source Code: 4,200 hits

Free Pascal Source Code: 1,930 hits

--

I use Delphi: 1,830,000 hits

I use Free Pascal: 5,280 hits

Well ofcourse assuming google tells the thruth or tells thruth accuratly 
would be foolish.

Last result is kinda interesting though... only 5280 hits for "use".

Other hits kinda surprise me... many hits for free pascal ;) :)

Maybe you guys not doing that bad after all :)

Bye,
  Skybuck.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonardo M. Ramé" <martinrame at yahoo.com>
To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal


> Before assuming FPC isn't atracting users, why don't we start tracking new 
> users and compare it's
> evolution month by month, year by year. With the help of this method, we 
> can figure out some ways
> to market FreePascal and Lazarus.
>
> We can start by extracting the subscription date of each user of our 
> mailing lists (I don't know
> if it's possible). After that, it's easy to create statistics and take the 
> corresponding actions.
>
> Leonardo.
>
> --- Skybuck Flying <skybuck2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is a suggestion:
>>
>> Called it puma ! :)
>>
>> Like the animal on the website.
>>
>> Puma's are fast.
>>
>> And that's a big adventage of Pascal/Delphi it compiles lightning fast
>> compared to C/C++ crap.
>>
>> Bye,
>>   Skybuck.
>
>
>
>
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