[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Mon Aug 13 11:03:23 CEST 2007


> On 8/13/07, Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
> > place.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> 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.

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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