Graeme Geldenhuys schreef:
2009/11/29 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>:
The serious users will consider the current restrained version policy as
more serious and see through a cheap spin.
That would be my view as well. Unfortunately we are then in the
minority. Version numbers on Windows etc. and been in popularity for
some time. No v1 release = rubbish software. Unfortunately that's what
they consider fact.
FPC & Lazarus choose there market by trying to be Delphi compatible -
so indirectly they are targeting Windows developers. Be that Windows
developers that want to move to new platforms or Windows developers
that want to move away for Delphi. Either way, it's Windows developers
and the majority of them look at version numbers. Sad, but true.
I would simply like Lazarus to play the PR game a bit - we have much
to benefit from that, and much to offer too. So why keep Lazarus a
secret or for the select few. Maximize your audience (quoted from PR
people I know).
As Florian noted, Lazarus needs developers more than users. There are
more gtk2 issues than win32 issues, so we need to focus our martekting
(if any) more to the potential gtk2 developers (on linux) than on the
potential win32 developers.
Vincent
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