Delphi for $ 199

Embarcadero has released version. Delphi X Starter Edition. cost $ 199 (. 5900 rubles in Russia. ). Technically, this is a stripped-down Professional, but with the ability to install components. The dog is buried in the legal constraints - Starter version can be used by individual developers or companies with up to 5 people, with income from the use of programs developed for this version, at least 1,000 (one thousand) dollars a year.
Sure, it was conceived as a powerful step in increasing the market share of Delphi, but that's pumped up the implementation of. in detail. Perhaps someone in Embaracdero heard of BizSpark program and WebsiteSpark, but do not have read the description to the end and did not run the program with the same their limits - 3 years of free use (or when the rhubarb to 500 thousand dollars a year ).
Perhaps some of the bosses to see the estimated number of downloads (most likely it will be comparable with the Turbo Delphi Explorer), thought that if you multiply it by 199, you get a great amount of.
It is not clear why no one has examined in detail the results of previous similar program with the Turbo, and no one remembered the Delphi Personal.
As Vladimir S. Vysotsky sang, '. others will come, changing comfort at the risk and excessive labor. '.