On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:34:32 +0200, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> wrote:
>On 06/16/2015 06:14 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> Being open source and allowing me to customise things the way I like >> is a brilliant feature. >He also wants to use closed source 3rd party stuff and want to impose >copy protection to his projects. All that is rather queer with an open >source IDE. This is unfair! We had a PhD hired for 8 years to complete the data analysis and presentation software for tomographic analysis. He was brilliant at his science but not so good at programming, I have discovered. Now I need to maintain the software suite while we try to get back the investment. Doing so with Embarcadero's software is progressively harder all the time due to their miserable support policy. That is why I am investigating the possibilities to port the applications to FPC and Lazarus. Should it be possible then I will probably have to spend a number of months doing it (hopefully less).' But in the end we still need the dongled protection because the package is a scientific analysis software suite and it is sold in maybe 100 copies yearly. The dongles ensure we at least get paid from official customers. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the way the developmemnt is done or which compiler is used. Back to my technical discussion: -------------------------------- Concerning Safenet I tried to access their support portal (which I have used frequently in the past) only to discover that they have moved to a new portal and apparently NOT migrated the registered users... So now I have to wait a while for my login to be created before I can ask for FreePascal support. -- Bo Berglund Developer in Sweden -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus