" Every compile takes 10cents of credit," I syntax check and compile about every 5 minutes or less.. its the speed and power of delphi to do this that is most valuable to me to make sure I don't ramble ahead with code that is full of syntactical foobars.. I'd go broke very fast at 500 compiles a day. :)
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>wrote: > If Turbo versions of Delphi are not available, it is a great idea to have > them as PR to get students getting free versions to learn on. Without > Embarcadero losing money on commercial sales. > > Interested to hear others ideas how such editions could work. > > My ideas: > > -Preventing installation of components as in the past is simple - but some > large scale commercial programs could still be made, so I think it needs > more. > > -Either disabling printing if included (Rave reports) or all printing > carries a water mark "Student Edition - not for commercial use". > > -All program windows contains some signature eg "Student edition" in the > title bar > > -some smart restrictions on what can be produced.......eg cheap or free DB > licences limit to often only 5 connections. Maybe limit units to 4000 > lines of code, or forms to 30 components total, and listviews and grids to > 200 lines, > > -Programs might only run for 1 hour maximum and exit with a reminder > screen, > or will not run at all after say 1-2 years. > > -Alternatively charge strictly on a usage basis - eg start with $20 free > credit. Every compile takes 10cents of credit, every debugger run takes 20 > cents off, editing takes off 1 cent per hour. When credit is used up IDE > stops working, and you have to uninstall and reinstall. (Transaction > based > charging like this is a favourite of mine, incorporated into some of my > programs). > > -Expiry date on IDE, have to uninstall and reinstall to get more. > > -Student edition could cost say $25 or be free, depending on how > restricted. > > A combination of more than one of these would mean commercial developers > would still get the real versions, and be not too mean on students. > > Choose what is good to limit, and let them otherwise have a fully > functional > version - in reality they won't be writing very large programs, so that is > what to limit. > > Personally I would favour the combination of > -Watermarks on printing > -limits on grid size and number of components on a form > -programs run for 1 hour maximum. > > John > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821
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