Christian U. schreef:
Vincent Snijders schrieb:
Lukas Gradl schreef:
Do you really think, Lazarus should only exist to develop Lazarus?
Lazarus exists to develop Object Pascal programs with FPC.
For creating a successful and strong development tool (which is the
goal of the whole project AFAIK) you need not only contributors but
users as well...
Why needs Lazarus users that contribute nothing?
They are testers and they infect others by the virus ;)
More users are already an good thing.
Well, that was my question, please explain why. What benifit gets
Lazarus from a user? Lazarus doesn't get a thing for users that just
uses Lazarus and doesn't contribute anything. Codegear for example gets
a couple of hundreds of dollars for each user.
Why Lazarus is Open Source ? If you dont need users you can also work
with your 2 neighbours on it in your cellar.
No, working with my two neighbours would not work. Lazarus needs lot's
of testers, document writers, support givers in the forums (main,
distro-specific and in several languages), graphical designers.
If me and my two neigbours work on it in my rate, we couldn't finished
it in my lifetime. So we need more developers and more other
contributors, that can help to alleviate the tasks of the developers and
may become developers in the future.
So what we need it users that are willing to become contributors, not
users that contribute nothing. They are welcome of course. But they are
not *needed* for Lazarus to advance.
Please, correct me, where I am making a mistake in my reasoning.
Vincent
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