[Gambas-user] Merge Gambas Forums / Gambas in Windows

[Juan Jose Costello Levien]

Hello Daniel,

OK, I understand.
As I see the spirit of free software, like you described, then, why not
build simply a "forum-mailing list" search engine, and let anybody login to
whatever forum he/she likes to?

That way, we preserve everybody's choice of posting and add a free service
to the community.
To begin with, I will choose the main sources of postings, like this list
archives plus 2 or 3 forums, and optionally a "code collector", to maintain
Gambas snippets.

By the way, I am working in an idea to implement such engine. When it's
finished, I will adapt it to host the engine.


Oh, it would be nice as a Gambas propaganda to have a complete list of "big
users" like the Extremadura government inside it... :)


Thank you for your answer.



Juan



On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Daniel Campos <dcamposf at ...626...> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> For the tone of your response, I assume you are being ironic.
> > Seriously, I don't know how huge is the Gambas community. I do know that
> C
> > and C++ are well known languages, with masses behind them, so an alone
> > forum
> > would be senseless, but in the Gambas case, I always thought about a
> young
> > community with a growing number of people...
>
>
> The problem is that you (a generic you) can not force things to happen in a
> concrete way when talking about free software, the spirit of free software
> is just "customize it as you want", and that includes the different
> projects
> about documentation, forums, etc. Anyone is free to create new forums, free
> to think that their propposal is the best way to handle it, and only
> "natural selection" can determine if one day they will join, there will be
> a
> winner in a contest or whatever. Trying to force things to happen is just
> an
> useless effort, that's why I was ironic.
>
>
> > And speaking about popularity, is Gambas being used in big companies? I
> > mean, I used it for my own projects, and zero problems up to now, but
> what
> > if I have to recommend it to a company? Or choose a language for critical
> > projects?
> >
>
>
> Well, here the Extremadura government is using it in about 80.000
> computers,
> and I know about companies here that are using it too. In Southamerica some
> people are migrating VB programs to Linux environments thanks to Gambas
> too.
>
> Anyway it depends on the kind of companies you work in/for. Some of them
> are
> willing to use new technologies proposed by their workers, and some of them
> reject any new thing that do not include the trademark of big companies.
> Here in Extremadura, too,  I know about companies that only want to know
> about "Java", "IBM support", "Mono-Novell", and are using those bloated
> environments to create small applications wasting hundred of thousands of
> euros just because they have a well-known trademark as if they were buying
> Nike sport shoes. So basically, Gambas2 is ready, but some managers are
> not.
>
>
>
>
> Daniel
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