Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On 4/26/06, Ales Katona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not required in most cases, there are already farms for OSS provided for >> free. > > Source Forge for example has a server farm. But it doesn't provide > Free Pascal, so it is of no use for me.
Install it in ~/bin. > >>> + The Bounties aren't necessarely outside people paying developers to >>> do things. If we had donations you could use them to fund further >>> development by people outside the main core group. You could say for >>> example: $1000 for whoever port Free Pascal to Palm >>> >> The result of this is questionable at best, there are many hidden dangers. > > IMHO Summer of Code from Google is almost this, and we could make such > investments just like it. > > So, I am to assume that you beliave that google summer of code is also > questionable at best? > > Then why many other important open source projects beliave on it? > Mono, Python, wxWidgets, GCC all are there, and all accept donations > and investments. > > Why so much resistence from Pascal? These projects are driven by people doing the project as their daily job. None of the current fpc developers want to do this. > > And more importantly, where will this lead us in the future? It keeps the fun for the current developers so they will continue to work on fpc. As soon as you get money for something, you've pressure, deadlines etc. and the fun will be lost. > > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
