Re: dclusr trick no longer works with the Turbo Explorers

Arthur Hoornweg wrote:

Thomas Mueller wrote:

Why? People who want to, will always get around any limitation.

That's no reason to make it easy.
If it's just a matter of downloading a tweak to be able to install
any package, don't you think it'll affect sales? If it's so easy that
it can be done without altering the actual product, such a tweak may
even be legal. Such a scenario must be avoided at all cost.

If Borland limits the Turbo Explorers too much for their taste,
they will get a cracked version of BDS.

AFAIK T.Explorer is the Borland counterpart of Visual Studio Express
and meant to compete with that. To lure beginning developers over to
the Borland camp. Students, hobbyists, beginning enterpreneurs, who
will buy the full product later. An investment in the future.

Also, as I understand it, the Explorer editions are
meant to be converted in Pro editions by just installing a new
license.

I really hope that's not the case, or else the possibility for
cracking the product is built-in from the start. They should compile
the product with some IFDEFS to remove the "full" functionality from
the executable.

The only way to keep software completely protected is at the bottom of
a locked filing cabinet, in a dis-used lavatory with a sign on the door
saying 'Beware of the leopard'. And even then if it was on a computer
with wireless access, it might not be safe.

That being said, we wanted to balance the ability of Explorers to be
upgraded easily against the ability to make it too easy to crack and
use improperly. So you'll see a number of packages in the Explorer
making it 'Pro ready', and ideally you just need to enter a serial key
and immediately have Pro functionality and ability to use 3rd party
components.

We couldn't release a few files due to licensing, and the command line
compiler would be a real pain to protect in any reasonable manner so
offer that to Professional registered users as a download (or should
soon - red tape may still be holding that up, I need to go check...).

The team is just happy to give developers an easier time to try out our
IDE without having to scare folks away with high prices. We'll be
happier to see people 'dig' the Explorers and upgrade to Professional,
of course. That's the best motivation to do it again.

--
Chris Pattinson
QA Manager, DTG, Developer Studio
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