Re: Borland snubbing out the hobbyist programmers with Delphi 2005

From: Erwien Saputra (erwien_at_nospam.codeilne.dot.net)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: 16 Oct 2004 18:27:49 -0700

Lord Crc wrote:
>
> Selling an "upgrade" for the difference between the academic and the
> "proper" pro verision shouldnt be such a bad deal?

I am totally on board with your idea. In this thread, I brought up the
exact same thing.

> Here in .no you need to show your student identification (issued by
> your university/college etc) in order to buy academic versions.

Here in US, I bought academic license once, and do not know what to do
with it now.

> Seems fair to me. Try it out with academic, if you make something
> wicked, you get the upgrade and you're where you'd be if you just
> bought the "pro" version to begin with.

Nick talked about unrestricted academic license. What will prevent
unethical persons from selling unrestricted license to any users?

Wien.