Re: benchmark - bad delphi performance

From: Captain Jake (johnjac76[nospam)
Date: 01/12/04 

Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:26:40 -0600

"Stig Johansen" <aaa@bbb.com> wrote in message
news:4000e2cb@newsgroups.borland.com...
> If one reads the license, it states 'the product', which means
Delphi/Kylix.
> The resulting Benchmark.exe is Marc's product, not Borlands.

Wrong. Benchmarking means comparing the speed of compiled code of different
compilers. That is not somehow rendered benign by the fact that
benchmark.exe is "Marc's product". If he creates similar compiled codefrom
several different compilers and compares the timings, he has benchmarked all
those compilers, whether or not he owns the exe in the sense of being
allowed to distribute it.

You do not own your copy of Delphi, you license it, and the license for the
pro and up versions merely permits you to distribute and sell the code you
create with it. It does not grant you ownership of the resulting code to do
anything with it you want. In fact there is not a commercial development
tool on this planet that grants you such carte blanche ownership of the code
you create with it.

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