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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:28AM (#22116571)
The key question is: should it be so? Or: wouldn't the world be a better place if we had some equilibrium between web and desktop apps?
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by trimboffle on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @06:30AM (#22116587)
No.

But I can see this thread is populated with Delphi diehards.

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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by zer0tonin on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:56AM (#22117101)
I'm definitely not a Delphi diehard, but I tend to think it's a good thing to have computation done on my largely powerful enough, instead of it being done on a small VM at the other side of the world which doesn't provide me with any control over my data.
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Re:Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million ... by dvfjsdhgfv on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:41AM (#22117002)
I have nothing to do with Delphi. But I miss the time when users were in control of their data, and you could still use your computer normally offline.
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