[DUG] A change in upgrade policy coming from Embarcadero

[Kyley Harris]

Richard. My personal opinion on the 2005 is that they were better of
dumping it in the bin. Perhaps they could have offered a heavy
discount to those who got caught. Perhaps not.

I would rather that they focus their energies on a singular version. I
just wish they would focus better.  :). If they maintain every version
they certainly loose focus and cause more bugs in new versions.

On Saturday, September 19, 2009, Richard Vowles
<richard at developers-inc.co.nz> wrote:
> Maybe we can go back to the central tenant of this discussion (I think). Which is, can a caretaker of Delphi (whoever that is) be expected to change the way Delphi has *always* been sold and supported? I.e. new versions stop patches occuring on previous versions. Were the versions of Delphi 2005 so bad that who-ever the caretaker now is should be required to go back and fix that product? What should be required for Delphi 8?
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> Examples in the field of software development tools or *directly equivalent disciplines* please. Comparison to Windows, house builders, plumbers or any other such are allowed :-)
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> This discussion has bought out all sorts of interesting points of view.
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> And Paul, given your incredible civility in this conversation thus far and dealing with my outburst of grumpiness with a very well worded email, I will get Developers Inc to order you a Pro upgrade free of charge (we will pay for it ourselves). Please let me know in email directly what version you would like and where to ship it to. And no, I'm not doing it for anyone else - you guys need to take it up with Borland :-) They'll probably try and sell you COBOL.NET
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> Richard
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