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Few years ago they obviously realized this and created free of charge "community" edition (IIRC it is licensed in the "it's free unless you make more than X wit
by dfox 8y ago
Few years ago they obviously realized this and created free of charge "community" edition (IIRC it is licensed in the "it's free unless you make more than X with this" way, like Unreal Engine).
The target customers for the paid editions obviously are developers of custom line of bussines applications. And in that case the license cost is somewhat justified, as the IDE and it's libraries are essentially directly usable for that, while everyone developing similar things in notionally free of charge Visual Studio is going to buy DevExpress and ReSharper.
- acqq 8y agohttps://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter "If you're a small company or organization without revenue (or up to $5,000 per year in revenue), you can also use the Delphi Community Edition. Once your company's total revenue reaches US $5,000, or your team expands to more than 5 developers, you can move up to an unrestricted commercial license with Professional edition."
- moron4hire 8y ago$5,000/yr revenue is not a lot. I made more than that my first year freelancing in highschool. All I did was write HTML (in Notepad).
- wila 8y agoIf your team is over 2 developers and you don't have a revenue of $5k then I don't think you will be in the market for long. In other words, CE only caters to students and those will not invest their time in a dying platform if they are smart.
- distances 8y agoOr hobbyists. Personal projects don't need to bring in money.