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. <div>
<br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.. </div>
<div><br></div><div>personally.. I'm clueless about Delphi in the industry now.. I have no idea where they are going.<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Jolyon Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">It's an annual limit afaik.<br>
<br>
But it's a "revenue" limit, not profit, with no allowance for any the costs<br>
that even a hobbyist or open source developer might incur. e.g. if someone<br>
makes software available for download they will most likely incur traffic<br>
costs for the downloads. With a "donation" scheme in place, the donations<br>
may not even cover the traffic costs, but as soon as those donations hit<br>
$1000, they are in violation of their license terms, even tho they still<br>
aren't actually making any money from their Delphi use.<br>
<br>
This is what I mean by it being ridiculously low.<br>
<br>
If it was $1000 *profit* then it would be different.<br>
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> The $1000 revenue limit is also bizarrely low imho - it's high enough to<br>
> worm it's way around any "non-commercial use" restriction, but not high<br>
> enough to realistically be anything other than a "non-commercial use only"<br>
> restriction in all but name.<br>
<br>
It is targeted at open source or hobbyists developers. I don't see any<br>
issues with the limit.<br>
<br>
Is the $1000 per year or a running total?<br>
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