AVR-Chat

On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 16:40 +1100, John Samperi wrote:
> At 03:31 PM 31/10/2005, you wrote:
> >   Well.   I do not use, and never have used Delphi, and frankly am
> >not even sure I know what it is.
> Delphi is an IDE that lets you make pretty Windows programs
> just like the ones you buy at the shop :-)
> It is sold by Borland and a few people on this list use it,
> they just are not admitting it.
> I use it to develop interfaces that can talk to AVRs in our
> product HOWEVER even though I would give these away by posting
> them on the website I could find myself in troubles because they
> are developed on a free personal edition which cannot be used for
> commercial applications. I am prepared to pay for the program BUT
> Borland has a free version (as above) then a professional version
> (the cheapest) which costs about AUD$1600.00 which I'm not prepared
> to pay because it would not return any money and therefore cannot
> justify the costs.


   Yes.  Unfortunately, Borland International lost sight of it's
original business model. I was the proud owner of Borland Pascal 1.0 for
CP/M, for all of $25 in 1984 or 1985.  Their later products got
ridiculously expensive.  In my not so humble opinion, this is why
Borland is no longer a major player in the commercial software market.

> I have tried Lazarus which is an open source program that
> works pretty much the same as Delphi....except that it doesn't
> work :-) and it worth every cents you don't pay for it.

  When you say "it doesn't work," what exactly do you mean?  Does it
simply not function at all, or not function at all?   Is it that you are
unhappy with the resultant UIs, or that they are useless?

Tom