On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:35:24 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Tony Maro wrote:
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> > Micha Nelissen wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:26:09 +0200 (CEST)
> > > Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > I've been following the talk about Lazarus' visibility, and
> > > > marketing.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Me too, of course.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > There is a VERY important fact you must be aware of:
> > > >
> > > > The number of Free Pascal and Lazarus developers is VERY SMALL.
> > > > What is more, this is a HOBBY, not their source of income.
> > > > (Although probably some of us would like it to be so.)
> > > >
> > > >
> > Speak for yourself!
>
> I speak for the FPC core team. For each of them it is their hobby.
> I don't know about the Lazarus core team.
The same.
> > I'm pulling around $1k USD / month using Lazarus for
> > contract work for both Linux and Windows. Some you've heard of
> > (TruckBites), others are more VAR integration work. Certainly not my
> > primary source of income, but it helps feed and clothe the kids.
> >
> > > > This cannot be stressed enough:
> > > > We barely have time to keep developing Lazarus/FPC.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Indeed, those who have been posting ideas should not interpret silence
> > > from the lazarus team as if we think the ideas are bad; it's just that
> > > we can't do two things at once. Considering the fact that we
> > > (probably) won't be the marketeers, it would be bad for us to say how
> > > marketing should be done (although it should be proper and sane of
> > > course).
> > >
> > In a previous life I was a VP of Marketing - what we need is not so much
> > "marketing" but more Public Relations.
>
> For the average man this is the same thing :-)
>
> > Marketing implies an outflow of
> > cash... PR doesn't necessarily. The other thing to be aware of is that
> > the more we get into the limelight, the more Borland (Inprise, what's
> > the name of the week?) will start breathing down our necks looking for
> > patent/copyright violations. The core developers better be prepared for
> > that.
>
> We have always been.
>
> We don't copy any source of Borland, this is a rule.
>
> And Borland should not try to fight us;
> We're a partner: we help in keeping Object Pascal alive;
Exactly. We 'just' miss some features in Delphi and therefore started
fpc,lazarus. ;)
> Something they should consider carefully...
Mattias
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