[DUG] Delphi Specials

[Jolyon Smith]

One other thing on the Windows vs Delphi ownership experience.

 

Since buying Delphi 7 a number of years ago, on a NUMBER of occasions when installing it on those new PC’s of mine I have had difficulty activating and thus being able to USE the software I bought.

 

In the same period I had such trouble only ONCE with my XP installs.

 

When we purchased our Delphi 2010 licenses last year we had a number of difficulties activating the product EVEN FOR THE FIRST TIME.

 

 

 

And it’s not about not rewarding Embarcadero, it’s about Embarcadero not offering a product that is worth the amount being asked for it.

 

At work my employer provides my license.  I can use that license at home too.

 

But if I want to do my OWN work, not connected to my employer, I need to be able to use my own license otherwise my employer may lay a claim the work I produce, even though it is in my own time.  This is perhaps not as common in NZ/AU, but it is quite common to have such claims made explicit in employment contracts in the UK, for example.

 

And unless such claims on IP are explicitly relinquished in your contract, your employer might yet have a legitimate claim to make, should it become in their interests to do so.

 

But I do not need Architect or Enterprise for the sort of things I do in my own time.

 

I do not even need Pro.

 

I do not want or need modelling or a large number of the refactorings (which don’t work much of the time anyway).  I don’t even need DBExpress (ADO is freely available) and I certainly don’t need BlackFish (does anyone even use it).

 

So why can’t I buy a $200-$400 edition of Delphi that gives me what I want and need?

 

Until I can, Embarcadero are simply losing that potential sale.

 

 

http://www.deltics.co.nz/blog/?p=533

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