[DUG] Delphi Starter Edition

[Jeremy North]

Yeah but profit can be dealt away with. Just think of all the movies
that are the highest grossing of all time, but somehow manage to make
very little "profit".

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM, 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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