[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[Florian Klaempfl]

Tom Lisjac schrieb:
> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Rigel Rig schrieb:
>>> Until then, do not be surprised why there are not many new programmers
>> Luckily enough we heard the same for FPC and experience showed that 1.0
>> didn't change anything regarding contributors. So this argument is
>> simply nonsense.
> 
> When the 1.0 compiler came out, Delphi was cheap, worked well and
> dominated the market. At the time, mainstream Pascal developers had no
> reason to care about "that other compiler" or volunteer to support it.
> 
> ... but how times have changed! :)
> 
> It's a totally different landscape now, Florian... and it's completely
> flawed to compare the lack of motivation for volunteers with the 1.0
> compiler to the current situation with Lazarus.
> 

Oh really? So why did people tell us then at FPC 0.9x.y times that
things will change and FPC will get a lot of contributors when 1.0 is out?