I will start sooner or later foundation with clear targets and with real and detailed info about: what and how is sponsored. I am banned in this "Official foundation" so I will change again NewPascal project to "NewPascal" foundation. I am lucky because I have good law in my country for foundations so all will be really official.
"Foundation" is a registered official legal entity. Initially using the word with NewPascal was factually wrong because you did not have a legal foundation. Once you register it then you can use the word.
However I ask you to hold it back now. We must have a well organized system that truly supports the projects and which is widely accepted by its developers and users.
Just creating competing foundations will not bring anything good.
- The foundation was announced too early only because "NewPascal" idea born. How foundation can exist if the main reason was blocking NewPascal idea?
Yes, it seems "going live" and creating its home page & Google+ page was caused by NewPascal, as weird as it sounds. However there was no other "event" that would force Boian Mitov to hurry with it.
The foundation was created already 9 months earlier, then motivated by unsecurity of Delphi's future. That is again a wrong motivation. Delphi's owner arrangements should not affect the support for our projects, not by much anyway.
So, both decisions were made by one man and for wrong reasons!
Are the other 2 members just passengers? This must be discussed with them somewhere.
Anyway I sympathize you Maciej. First you were seriously attacked by the horrible Jon Lennart person with claims like "
open source means no business".
Then you got negative feedback from Boian.
In both cased you had first created good, innovative SW that improved things. Why it all happened? Quite amazing!
High quality code is a
Holy thing in a programming project, attacking it is a big
Sin.
Who proclaimed it, and who set the link on the offical Lazarus page? It seems to be connected to the Blaise Pascal magazine, it has the same address.
Yes, Detlef Overbeek is the editor-in-chief of Blaise Pascal magazine. He has organized FPC & Lazarus related meetings, including the Lazarus 1.0 announcement event at 2012.
Michael V.C. is a long-time respected FPC developer.
With those people the foundation looked like a good thing, but it doesn't look so good any more.
https://www.firebirdsql.org/en/membership/
Thanks for this and all the other links everybody. It will take some time to read them...
I have many activities like picking blueberries in near future.