[lazarus] To see what I mean about the traffic

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 09:06 27.02.01 -0500, you wrote:
>Peter Vreman wrote:
> >
> > In the tallbacks there were some negative things about lazarus. Most
> > were from commercial developpers that can afford to buy kylix and have
> > to deal with time to market.
>
>Yeah I read those too. Kinda of discouraging.

I think this is no reason. One of my main arguments is: do you know
when Borland gives up Kylix, then your lost. It could be happen very fast,
for example Corel comes in mind.

 > And there was also some confusing that lazarus was started after kylix
 > was announced. Maybe it's better next time to include a small line
 > like: lazarus has been founded in spring 1999. then it's clear that it
 > was started before kylix was announced for the first time.
 >
 > I was going to defend it but then saw that several other people came up
 > to the plate and defended our start date. However, I will most definitly
 > mention when it started next time.

FYI, the FCL was started in Summer '98 by Michael V. C. and me. FPC
for Linux was created in Summer '96 by Michael V. C. thus FPC/Lazarus
for Linux was much earlier started than Kylix.