My 2c worth
If the product is part of the Standard Delphi install - then Borland is responsible.
Imagine the uproar if one purchased a new car (no optional extras). The gear-box fails
and being
told by the vendor "We did'nt make the gear-box - you'll have to go to the Shonky
GearBox Co to
have that fixed."
If Borland do not or did not want to be responsible then QReports should have been in
an
optional ('third party stuff') directory with the notice something along the lines
that these have
been provided free of charge but the decision to install is up to the user - Borland
accepts no
liability for third party products. The user then installs at his/her own risk.
The problem here is that after Report Smith fell from grace, there was a serious gap
in the Delphi
productivity marketing features (How can we ship a product without an effective
reporting tool? -
we'll get our a...s kicked!) - Borland (in my opinion) chose to fill that gap with
QReports and save
the embarrassment of being reviewed as "wonderful product - spoiled by the lack of
reporting
tools". Don't make users pay for marketing decisions that go wrong.
Jim Quickenden
pps
Fortunately for us we remove QReports from the VCL at birth so no one could be
tempted.
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