[Lazarus] Lazarus Digest, Vol 99, Issue 32

Ondrej Pokorny lazarus at kluug.net
Mon Apr 18 12:40:06 CEST 2016


On 18.04.2016 12:27, Michael Schnell wrote:
> On 04/15/2016 08:50 PM, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
>> It is very very simple for a non-profit/OSS project: more man hours 
>> earned back than those which were invested.
>
> that would completely ignore the interest of the users of the project. 
> (Which in commercial projects can be measured in the revenue.)

No, the equation includes everything along with everybody's interests.

Example:
You spend X hours to write documentation for A that saves Y hours to Z 
users that otherwise had to study the code.
Then you can compare X to Y*Z.


On 18.04.2016 12:27, Michael Schnell wrote:
> So not a friendly attitude at all.

No. You seem to have misunderstood Florian's statement ;)

Ondrej




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