[Lazarus] Commercial components for Lazarus

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, cc_ at freemail.hu wrote:

> Hello List,
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> I have written a post to the database section of the Lazarus forum about a commercial database engine recently ported for Lazarus, which made me think about the whole "Commercial components for Lazarus" issue. This is a part of that post: (It can be found here http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=27411#27411)
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> <<Lazarus is a free software, which is good, but I would pay for it just to get the chance to develop crossplatform in a Delphi like style. I believe it is important for the future of Lazarus to attract the developers of quality commercial components to port their work for Lazarus. And it is already happening. The big question is if the Lazarus community is willing to realize how valuable it is to have the wealth of quality commercial components for Lazarus we already have for Delphi. Are they willing to pay for it? I certainly hope they see that it is for the benifit of everyone. It could open the way to port a lot of Widows only Delphi projects for different platforms. Many times a suitable 3rd party component can save lots of time and money, so it is more efficient to spend the money on buying a good 3rd party product. >>
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> What everyone thinks about this?

What is the question exactly ?  I understand it as:

"Would the lazarus community pay commercial developers to port their components ?"

Am I correct ?

Michael