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.
Not every user that
looks first to the Executable Size, and uninstall lazarus or
is pointed every second time the debugger hits an exception in lcl code
is automatically an idiot. but the first impression is an very importend
thing.
And every core developer should be interested in lazarus making an good
first impression.
Only my opinion.
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.
Also not so good programmers can be good testers, graphical designers,
help writers and so on.
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.
You get as more developers as more users are use it.
At least when a lot of people programm with lazarus it is interisting
for developers to work on it.
Please, correct me, where I am making a mistake in my reasoning.
done.
best regards
Christioan
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