[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

Michael Van Canneyt michael at freepascal.org
Mon Aug 13 11:07:55 CEST 2007



On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > 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.

That is more or less what I wanted to get across, yes.

Thanks, Marco :-)

Michael.



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