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See my comment to Atanas: https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/from-the-gm-new-updates-and-changes-to-the-registration-bumps-policy?CommentId=7816b564-c240-4ad1-ad95-a79bdacd479c

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Had thought this may come at some time so now only have one legacy app running in Delphi. Realise it is not practical for many of you but I have ported newer apps to Lazarus / mORMot. Not as elegant, or feature rich as Delphi, but works for me and there are no licencing issues. Feel comfortable with that decision now Idera have made this announcement.

WTF Embarcadero, you are just alienating the few paying customers you have left. If you use activation as a licensing mechanism, you MUST offer deactivation or a means to move licenses, without requiring support involvement. Seriously pissed off by this move, the cow is almost milked dry!

Bump Me Delphi One More Time (Sung to the tune of Baby One More Time) Oh Delphi, Delphi Oh Delphi, Delphi Oh Delphi, Delphi how was I supposed to know That something wasn't right here Oh Delphi, Delphi I shouldn't have nuked Windows And now you're out of sight, yeah Show me how to contact Team B Tell me Delphi 'cause I need to use Project Jedi Your installing is killing me (and I) I must confess I need a bump (need a bump) Using EDN I lose my mind I'm in a bind Bump me Delphi one more time Oh Delphi, Delphi The reason I reinstall? The IDE is locked up Oh 'spensive Delphi There's nothing that I wouldn't pay To get out of this cock-up Show me where to send the money Tell me Delphi 'cause I need to compile, all because Your policies are killing me (and I) I must confess I now believe (now believe) Dropping my subscription wasn't fine Here's dollar signs Bump me Delphi one more time Oh Delphi, Delphi Oh Delphi, Delphi Yeah, Oh Delphi, Delphi how was I supposed to know Oh 'spensive Delphi, that Popov needed the dough I must confess, that Oxygene is looking so good now Don't you know I still believe That I'm screwed and how EDN be kind Bump me Popov one more time Your Code Insight is killing me (and I) I must confess I still believe (still believe) One more squiggly line I'll lose my mind VS' looking fine Bump me Delphi one more time I must confess, that your buggy mess is killing me now Don't you know I'm still locked in I see with clarity Can't wait til FPC reaches feature parity Bump me Delphi one last time

That is true, you can see the remaining activations on the IBExpert site which already makes it much better than Embas offering. However, the unregister process is a manual one involving email. So I have in the past had to wait a day or two over a public holiday for that to come through. I've also been in a situation where machines have taken multiple registrations. Getting that sorted out took a couple of attempts (mainly around convincing the support staff there was a problem.). I didn't know about the fixed fee to get the activation going again, good to know. IBExpert is now being sold as subscription only software so at least we know where we stand with it. Delphi has always had a terrible solution where it comes to activation. Their web site is a mess and as you say does not give any information as to how many activations you have left. It's like Russian roulette every time you need to re-install for whatever reason.

In case the plugin adds some entries to the local editor menu: That is no longer working in 10.3! I would link to the QP report here, but I cannot find it anymore - actually I can find near to none QP reports.

Amber! Amber was so soothing for the eyes... I really miss it at times.

Sorry, TWSocketThrdServer has never been supported by FMX, nor has it really been updated for a decade or more. It is probably little effort to add FMX support, but it is not often used since most ICS servers work fine without threads, It's only when you need several hundred simultaneous clients that threads become necessary, and then perhaps not one per client. Angus

Somebody was bound to try it anyway.

Antagonising your customers and making them hate you is never a good business plan.

Wonder if this is in contravention of Australian consumer laws?

"One time" so I get to install one more time and then I'm up shit creek?

For public servers, the best SSL test is https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ which gives a long report on which protocols and ciphers are supported and recommends changes. With the ICS V8.60 and later, ICS servers should get an A+ rating providing you also have certain HTTP headers to block exploits. For private servers, you can use the latest ICS HTTPS client samples that allow disabling certain protocols and you can then try and connect to your server. The quickest way is to download the pre-build Browser demo application from http://wiki.overbyte.eu/arch/FrameBrowserIcs.zip which is a simple browser (no scripting) with extensive HTTP, HTML and SSL logging that allows you to set SSL Security to one of: SSLv3 Only TLSv1 Only TLSv1.1 Only TLSv1.2 Only TLSv1.3 Only TLSv1 or Better TLSv1.1 or Better TLSv1.2 or Better Backward Ciphers Intermediate Ciphers High Ciphers, 2048 keys High Ciphers, 3072 keys High Ciphers, 7680 keys In fact all ICS clients now have the same options in SslContext. Servers are more complicated, but again with V8.60 and later, you can set: SSLv3 Only Backward Ciphers, TLS1 or Later Intermediate Ciphers, TLS1.1 or Later Intermediate Ciphers FS, TLS1.1 or Later High 112 bit Ciphers, TLS1.2 or Later High 128 bit Ciphers, TLS1.2 or Later High 192 bit Ciphers, TLS1.2 or Later TLSv1.2 or Earlier TLSv1.3 Only provided your server is using IcsHosts. If not, V8.27 (two years ago) added SslContext properties SslMinVersion and SslMaxVersion which is what you should be using, not the old options. Angus

I checked the German license and there is no such thing that would a) mention any registration limit in the first place or b) state that increasing that limit is actually part of the support.

The history of stupid licensing conditions in the USA is as old as shrink-wrapped EULAs. The one ray of hope was the original Borland "just like a book" policy.

Last weekend was a perfect situation on not being able to do anything in the case of registration - data center was down. - Registration limit for the community edition is a joke. I personally won`t invest any more in delphi or anything from buggy emb.

I maintain one on SourceForge and have several small Repos on GitHub and I do speak for only myself. I can understand your viewpoint that anyone who cares about quality will accept a report from anywhere, but I feel that taking the time to report a bug shows a commitment on your part as a developer to quality. It works both ways....the receiving developer and submitting developer should be bound by the same commitment to quality, otherwise all you're advocating is hypocrisy. End users are another story, and it's a choice as to whether or not you want to chase down bugs reported on any medium depending on the quality of the information.

Funny thing is that those toolbars are originally meant for beginners. Long time users usually prefer working with keyboard shortcuts. Also f.i. filtering members by kind and visibility with the filter buttons is probably easier and faster than using the context menu. It may be pretty hard to find a balance between scaring some new user with too much possibilities and boring them with too little. I am not sure whether I prefer to answer the question "How can I hide that?" or perhaps never being asked "Can it do this or that?". There are quite a number of people saying they cannot work without MMX (me included) after working with it for a while. I know there are others who never get beyond this point. They either will miss something or MMX is not the right tool for them. You cannot please everyone.

From the same Atanas Popov's article: "Our objective is to make staying on Update Subscription a “no brainer.” " Currently staying on Update Subscription is a nightmare. While with any other software product it is usually a matter of pressing a "Renew" link on a web page and entering card detail, the last time I tried to renew the Delphi subscription it was a ten days long process with a busy email exchange and even a phone call (!). Not to mention that the renewal price is not published anywhere and the renewal itself involves asking for a quote. Looks like Emb is not interested in Update Subscription customers, too. If only I was wise enough to avoid using custom attributes, generics and anon functions in the code, I'd happily move my 2M+ lines core codebase to Lazarus, but alas currently this is not possible. But lesson learnt.

If this is true, you can't even buy what they claim you need. You have to purchase new licences. You can't purchase maintenence once it has expired.