[DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

[Kyley Harris]

I can agree with you in essence Jolyon but if they did that then you could
have a major corporation type system where someone is spending 500k per year
and only earning 480k revenue, creating a tax loss business as they develop
a major product that could then be sold as a one off capital expense to some
other company all in a free copy of Delphi.

Ludicrous I know, but it happens in big business all the time that they make
losses. As a Hobbyist, I could say my house payments are losses etc and
claim to never earn a *profit* even if I took in $20,000 per year revenue.

I think what it really comes down to is not an issue of fairness, but in
reality all free or cheap copies are a marketing ploy. is it a good or bad
ploy for the growth of delphi compared to Visual Studio and other options
around..

personally.. I'm clueless about Delphi in the industry now.. I have no idea
where they are going.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsmith at deltics.co.nz> wrote:

> It's an annual limit afaik.
>
> But it's a "revenue" limit, not profit, with no allowance for any the costs
> that even a hobbyist or open source developer might incur.  e.g. if someone
> makes software available for download they will most likely incur traffic
> costs for the downloads.  With a "donation" scheme in place, the donations
> may not even cover the traffic costs, but as soon as those donations hit
> $1000, they are in violation of their license terms, even tho they still
> aren't actually making any money from their Delphi use.
>
> This is what I mean by it being ridiculously low.
>
> If it was $1000 *profit* then it would be different.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of Jeremy North
> Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2011 12:58
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Delphi Starter Edition
>
> > The $1000 revenue limit is also bizarrely low imho - it's high enough to
> > worm it's way around any "non-commercial use" restriction, but not high
> > enough to realistically be anything other than a "non-commercial use
> only"
> > restriction in all but name.
>
> It is targeted at open source or hobbyists developers. I don't see any
> issues with the limit.
>
> Is the $1000 per year or a running total?
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