[DUG] Delphi Specials

[Jolyon Smith]

Ø  Aw nuts you are just being a stirrer.

 

Why is pointing out facts considered stirring?

 

 

 

Ø  I actually use D5 and D2007 both a lot for work.  So thats my experience – I greatly prefer D2007.

Ø  For me a pro upgrade is $600-700 so thats also true.

 

Right, but using *your* position as the basis for telling someone else what to do misses a key point: they aren’t necessarily in your position.

 

 

Windows updates vs Delphi updates: Categorise the Windows updates however you like, but the simple and blunt fact remains that if you buy a version of Delphi, you will not get ANY updates of ANY kind to that version once the NEXT version has been released.

 

That is NOT the case with Windows.  You brought up Windows as an example of a worse situation to be in w.r.t updates, I am merely pointing out that is simply not the case.

 

 

Ø  What I am saying is do not punish Borland and Embarcadero for making a product that was reliable and well usable for 10+ years.   Reward them by spending a small amount of money to keep them in business. And into the bargain enjoy a much better version of Delphi.

 

How about Embarcadero punishing their customers for not having provided compelling reasons to upgrade?

 

 

Ø  I am grumpy about buying 8 versions of Windows mainly because I couldn’t move the licences from PC to PC

 

What?  I bought a Windows XP upgrade to the “Me” that came with a PC I bought some years ago.  I have bought a number of PC’s – some pre-built and some self assembled - since then but never had to buy another copy of Windows, I just re-installed my existing XP license.

 

And why do you feel so less inclined to reward Microsoft for making a reliable, well usable product when doing so costs far, FAR less than rewarding Borland (who produced a couple of REAL stinkers, products that were neither reliable nor even barely usable, over the years)

 

 

Ø  “No-one ever built a statue of a critic”

 

Yet without critics, some people often wouldn’t have been motivated to produce the works that lead to statues of them being built.

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