Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: 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

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On 11/23/05, Michalis Kamburelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Are there any real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus? I guess that even a manager is able to type fpc or lazarus into google. Just typed both on google and found many links about the compiler and the IDE, but not

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread L505
3. Are there any real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus? I guess that even a manager is able to type fpc or lazarus into google. And he'll find a bunch of fanboy websites. True.. we can create directories more like Torry.net instead of things like PasWiki which

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Ales Katona
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 Read again. Lazarus list had a very long discussion about LCL and LGPLv2 It is therefore possible to create closed source or proprietary software using Free

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Ales Katona wrote: 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

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Adriaan van Os wrote: P.S. Here is a text, specially for managers, applicable for any tech project: Blah blah ... de facto standard ... Blah blah ... highly committed ... Blah bah ... industrial strength ... Blah blah ... world class support ... Blah blah ... handholding ... Blah blah ...

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Johann Glaser
Hi! This selection is done already. See news on main fpc page. Hm, after giving it some thought, and after seeing [http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html] link, I have to agree: such selection looks nice. Indeed, nice page and truly impressive for people searching for a proof that FPC

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Daniƫl Mantione
Op Sat, 3 Dec 2005, schreef Johann Glaser: Hi! This selection is done already. See news on main fpc page. Hm, after giving it some thought, and after seeing [http://www.freepascal.org/gallery.html] link, I have to agree: such selection looks nice. Indeed, nice page and truly

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-12-03 Thread Ales Katona
So I fully agree to Ales that the FPC homepage needs a wow style. Despite I do like clear, simple homepages I don't think that this gives us good PR. Without offending Michael and others for their effort creating and maintaining the website, I think these pages induce the impression that FPC is

[fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Ales Katona
I think the simplest and perhaps most important change to get better PR for both Lazarus and FPC is the web page. It needs to be more wow style. News have to be a bit propagandistic. A FAQ is IMHO required with first questions like: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? 2. Can I use Free

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Adriaan van Os
Ales Katona wrote: I think the simplest and perhaps most important change to get better PR for both Lazarus and FPC is the web page. It needs to be more wow style. News have to be a bit propagandistic. A FAQ is IMHO required with first questions like: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free?

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Marco van de Voort
1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? 2. Can I use Free Pascal/Lazarus for commercial development? 3. Are there any real world applications made with Free Pascal/Lazarus? 4. Why should I use Free Pascal/Lazarus? 5. Isn't Free Software equal to crappy software? etc. In other words,

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Marcel Martin
Ales Katona wrote: 5. Isn't Free Software equal to crappy software? You're right. About Proprietary Software, there is no need to ask the question, the answer is obvious. mm ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Ales Katona
Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Ales Katona wrote: 1. Is Free Pascal/Lazarus really free? The freeness of FreePascal is already advertised in a lot of places, including the very name FreePascal. Current FAQ mentions (more than once) that the compiler is GPLed. I don't think there's any need

Re: [fpc-devel] PR advancement

2005-11-23 Thread Michalis Kamburelis
Ales Katona wrote: Michalis Kamburelis wrote: Ales Katona wrote: [...] 2. Can I use Free Pascal/Lazarus for commercial development? 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. If