On 10/05/2011 18:03, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > > Even commercial companies have difficulty following this model,
True. In general, commercial software have a much slower release cycle compared to open-source software. There are many reasons for that, one being that the open-source model is very different to a close-source model. > I guess that it works for Ubuntu simply because their work is mostly > packaging and not actually writing software. Indeed, but many forget that that was in fact one of Ubuntu's early goals. Ubuntu being the vehicle to get open-source projects out into the public eye and onto desktop computers. Now that they have been successful in that (though still not making any profit), the public is criticizing them for a job well done. Go figure! On the flip side, Canonical is investing year-on-year, more developers in home-grown software. So they do seem to take up the challenge of doing development and packaging. -- Ben. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal