Dear sir
Beginners DON'T CREATE COMPLEX COMMERCIAL APPS
You need freedom for create not "artificial" restrictions. Another tools
like Trolltech QT have two licenses modes and two 'packages' 

But I'm afraid this is becoming a big offtopic so I'm done with it

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nombre de Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
Enviado el: Jueves, 07 de Septiembre de 2006 17:08
Para: twsocket@elists.org
Asunto: Re: [twsocket] [OT] Borland Turbo

> That's amazing! An excellent tool for "beginners" that requires a
> (somewhat) deep knowledge only to use another set of components!! 

The beginners are not expected to be creating complex applications 
needing third party components with the 'free' version, they are 
expected to buy Turbo Professional, which is essentially the same price 
and concept as Delphi 6 and 7 Professional, before it got bloated with 
.net stuff and other languages as Borland Development Studio.  
 
> Who pays for those marketing guys?? Microsoft?

If you could create complex commercial applications with the 'free' 
version, few people would buy Delphi, and the marketing guys would not 
get paid.  Borland only has it's tools revenue to survive. 

Microsoft hands out Express versions of it's .net tools, probably 
because it knows few people would otherwise buy them.  It does not 
provide Win32 tools free.  And of course it has a few billion dollars of

OS revenue to subsidise these Express tools.  

Personally, I think Borland should have limited the 'free' version in 
the number of components on a form, or forms in a project, or similar, 
so that only simple applications can be created. 

Angus
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