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Olaf's thoughts about Delphi, IntraWeb and other dev stuff : Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

  • Lars Fosdal · 1 year ago
  • Olaf Monien · 1 year ago
    Hi Lars, thanks for your comment. I should have mentioned, that I'm using Win2003 for the tests.
  • Donald Shimoda · 1 year ago
    You say:

    For beta versions we are not allowed to post benchmark results

    AFAIK, according to the license you cannot publish any benchmark,neither non beta products.

    That policy change with embarcadero? I doubt it.
  • jimmckeeth · 1 year ago
    That is pretty much boiler plate licensing stuff. I don't remember when Borland dropped the no-nonsense license / book license and switched to this boiler plate annoying license. They must have hired a lawyer who went crazy.
  • Olaf Monien · 1 year ago
    Even for commonly called "free" software there are a lot of licensing
    issues many users may not really be expecting/aware of. I wonder how
    many commercial products are basically illegally using GPL'ed
    libraries/components ...

    Gruesse / Regards,
    Olaf Monien
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  • Olaf Monien · 1 year ago
    Well, the disclaimer for us Beta testers explicitly mentions benchmarks
    - which is understandable. A beta is a beta and speed may vary.

    I remember that the actual Delphi EULA mentions benchmarks as well, but
    in that case we would have to discuss what is a benchmark, and what is
    an observation. For the setup I would pretty much argue that the setup
    run time would be more an observation ;-)

    Regards,
    Olaf Monien
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    www.monien.net/blog