Helmut Hartl wrote:
At the current state this discussion mixes orthogonal things into
one dimension.
A thing a programmer never should do ... :-)
"A wise man should see a diamond gem if it lies before him on the
ground - At least he can decide if he wants to use funny arranged
carbon atoms - or not.
The dumb one does have at least the possibility
if you (developers) want it and you put a giant red wrap around it
("Lazarus 2009/Q3/Christmas Edition")
*) "Dumb" users will need C) and of 100 blind users maybe you get 5 good
ones and 1 idealist contributing -> D)
*) To make a point at A) you need a "killer application" (VLC, Lazarus
itself, uTorrent, Skype ...) and state that its made with Lazarus/FPC
and a target audience
*) Even companies have the possibillity to contribute, if contribution
is welcome, and a company can see the gem ...
For me I want to switch my firm completely from Delphi to FPC:
Which is hard because our GUI Clients uses many Components which needs
to be ported ...
Maybe the "5000 year old principle" of giving something to get something
is still applyable ?
I am trying to push Lazarus/FPC onto the CIS instructors at my school.
Trying to get them to use something our very small IT department can
actually support w/o installing GIGS of useless junk on our terminal
servers. And... having it be cross-platform between Win and Ubuntu helps
alot, our CIS is mainly using W32, but enough of our students are
dumping Vista and Win7 for Ubuntu that this would be a great selling point.
Having a "version 9.12" X-Mas or "version 10.0 " Jan edition would
definitely help the PSYCHOLOGY in this regard.
Who knows how many, if any, of people learning to program with Laz at my
institution will eventually become contribs? But, I do know that if one
does not go fishing, one will not catch any fish.
I also have a "killer app" in mind (to me), but not ready to share yet. :)
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