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 <jsm...@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-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@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? > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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