[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

[Mark Wood]

It makes better sense when you put it that way.

Cheers,
    Mark.


Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 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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