Your reviewer was looking at several Delphi not-so-legal sites and really amused at them. I won't give any names, but it gives some ideas what to look for.
The first three are in Arabic and Persian language, from Egypt, Saudi and Iran respectively. It was really hard for your reviewer to browse the site, except using Google Translate (Arabic to English, Persian to English). The next three in Czech, Romanian and Spanish. Everyone probably knows the Czech site very well. There are two Russian site that are dedicated for this (Russian to English).
If you browse around these sites... You'll get 101 links to RapidShare, HotFiles and so on to download these things not-so-legally.
I love you... until you have no job and no money
Every now and then, these URLs to Rapidshare will go bad or stale. Why does this happen? The owners of TMS, DevExpress and Components4Developers are busy sending emails requesting those sites to delete illegal uploads to those sites.
The next obvious thing happens - these Delphi lovers re-upload the files to those file-sharing sites again and again and again and again and again ....
Here are some interesting suggestions for the Component vendors:
1) Some of the harder-to-reach URLs require some reputation, like 50 thanks, 100 thanks. Upload some other component to that site and protect it... and within 8 hours, you will get more than 100 thanks and be able to view these hard-to-reach URLs.
2) Buy the MaxMind GeoIP or IP location site and protect your downloads using it. If your user specify he is from America but the download IP from Russia, shut down the account.
3) Automate the routine. Use the same build utility (e.g., either Final Builder or AutomatedQA) to automate sending emails to these file-sharing sites to remove these links.
4) Consider better background checks of your customers.
The people who really love Delphi, do things such as spreading the "Component Love", spreading "free copies of Delphi", spreading all the serial numbers, cracks and so on...
They are going to cause Delphi sales to drop, Delphi-component sales to drop... When component vendors sees little or no sales, month after month, they will start to stop development and probably close shop.
Look at DevExpress. Their WinForms and WebForms NET components are 10 or 20 times more advanced than the Delphi components. Look at other Delphi component vendors. If they cannot sustain the business, they will close down and put their components on SourceForge.
It affects other Delphi developers indirectly. These Delphi developers are waiting for the next raise, better pay... they probably are sweating and working really hard to make things work... or out of job and out of money.
Thank You
Your reviewer says "thank you" to Delphi lovers for causing Delphi job losses, business failure, loss of revenue and causing Delphi developers to remain jobless.
Keep up the Delphi Lover cheers and warmth!
:)
The first three are in Arabic and Persian language, from Egypt, Saudi and Iran respectively. It was really hard for your reviewer to browse the site, except using Google Translate (Arabic to English, Persian to English). The next three in Czech, Romanian and Spanish. Everyone probably knows the Czech site very well. There are two Russian site that are dedicated for this (Russian to English).
If you browse around these sites... You'll get 101 links to RapidShare, HotFiles and so on to download these things not-so-legally.
I love you... until you have no job and no money
Every now and then, these URLs to Rapidshare will go bad or stale. Why does this happen? The owners of TMS, DevExpress and Components4Developers are busy sending emails requesting those sites to delete illegal uploads to those sites.
The next obvious thing happens - these Delphi lovers re-upload the files to those file-sharing sites again and again and again and again and again ....
Here are some interesting suggestions for the Component vendors:
1) Some of the harder-to-reach URLs require some reputation, like 50 thanks, 100 thanks. Upload some other component to that site and protect it... and within 8 hours, you will get more than 100 thanks and be able to view these hard-to-reach URLs.
2) Buy the MaxMind GeoIP or IP location site and protect your downloads using it. If your user specify he is from America but the download IP from Russia, shut down the account.
3) Automate the routine. Use the same build utility (e.g., either Final Builder or AutomatedQA) to automate sending emails to these file-sharing sites to remove these links.
4) Consider better background checks of your customers.
The people who really love Delphi, do things such as spreading the "Component Love", spreading "free copies of Delphi", spreading all the serial numbers, cracks and so on...
They are going to cause Delphi sales to drop, Delphi-component sales to drop... When component vendors sees little or no sales, month after month, they will start to stop development and probably close shop.
Look at DevExpress. Their WinForms and WebForms NET components are 10 or 20 times more advanced than the Delphi components. Look at other Delphi component vendors. If they cannot sustain the business, they will close down and put their components on SourceForge.
It affects other Delphi developers indirectly. These Delphi developers are waiting for the next raise, better pay... they probably are sweating and working really hard to make things work... or out of job and out of money.
Thank You
Your reviewer says "thank you" to Delphi lovers for causing Delphi job losses, business failure, loss of revenue and causing Delphi developers to remain jobless.
Keep up the Delphi Lover cheers and warmth!
:)
3 comments:
I could add a 5th proposal: What about Component Vendors and Embarcadero itself don't invest on something like "Express" versions Microsoft offers for free?
Of course, neither Embarcadero nor Thrid Party Vendors are obligated to offer their products "for free" or "free as beer", but they could review some prices if they really want to survive.
People not interested on "not-so-legal" components and IDE, certainly are choosing between Lazarus/FPC or leaving Delphi "turf" and running to Microsoft (whose offer free "Expression" versions of their products, even to commercial development!) or consider going to Java whose offer either free and commercial tools and components. For instance, choose Netbeans you could have everything you need to develop. I don't recommend Java for Desktop development comparing to Delphi, but for the WEB... I'd not compare Java to Delphi.
"That's all, folks!"
Actually, being a paying customer myself, I should probably be angry at those folks doing the illegal thing.
But read your own posts, like the one about Delphi XE - Embarcadero is ripping off us paying customers regardless. They really suck at customer relations.
I'm not talking fanboi relations but *customer* (as in paying user) relations.
Quoted from a Brazil forum:
"muito bom o texto, serve de reflexão."
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