Comments on: Delphi 2009 Beta: Installation speed much, much improved!

By: Olaf Monien

Olaf Monien — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:15:11 +0000

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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By: Olaf Monien

Olaf Monien — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:10:15 +0000

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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By: jimmckeeth

jimmckeeth — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:12:50 +0000

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.

By: Donald Shimoda

Donald Shimoda — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:05:29 +0000

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.

By: Olaf Monien

Olaf Monien — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:20:08 +0000

Hi Lars, thanks for your comment. I should have mentioned, that I'm using Win2003 for the tests.

By: Lars Fosdal

Lars Fosdal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:23:26 +0000

Under what OS did you install?
If Vista, did you try with the registry tweaks?

href=”http://tools.fosdal.com/2008/08/tip-improving-delphi-install.html”>http://tools.fosdal.com/2008/08/tip-improving-delphi-install.html