We must realize that a college teacher/software engineer willing to use Lazarus at her classes/work is an ally. Sometimes she is having a hard time convincing her superiors that it's Ok to use Lazarus because, you know, version numbers are irrelevant. For the seasoned free software user, it makes no difference -- but for faculty staff or employees, it does.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/1 Michael Joyner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mjoyner@vbservices.net">mjoyner@vbservices.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Marco van de Voort wrote:<br>
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That's why a lot commercial software aimed at bulk user have yearnumber<br>
versioning, and open source projects not. Even the major distributions (only<br>
Mandrake and SUSE, that rely on selling versions have)<br>
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Hrm.. Have Ubuntu or Year based style versioning would make it easier to convince faculty to use it for teaching puposes.<div class="im"><br>
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IOW If you change to it, you make it easy to understand for a group that is<br>
not the target audience, which makes no sense.<br>
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Who is choosing the target audience?<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Atenciosamente,<br>Alexsander da Rosa<br>Linux User #113925<br><br>"Extremismo na defesa da liberdade não é defeito.<br>
Moderação na busca por justiça não é virtude."<br>-- Barry Goldwater<br>