Foreign Correspondent from Hong Kong
With translation help from our Correspondent in New York
With updated information given from readers
The problem with C++ Builder and Delphi in China is that Chinese C++ Builder and Delphi developers who try to help another land often end-up with loss of reputation, losing career prospects and no appreciation for their works.
Case Background
In China, there is an infamous case, 'Case of Peng Yu', which a driver supposedly helped an old woman who fell down on the road-side and escorted her to hospital, according to the driver's version.
(Google: "Case of Peng Yu")
The old lady, who took advantage of his generosity said that he knocked down her instead and after a long legal trial, the court ordered the driver to pay the old woman 45,000 Yuan in damages.
Now people think twice before helping others for fear of being falsely accused of wrongdoings while helping others.
Delphi Peng Yu?
The reason why nobody wants to help anymore in the China Delphi community reflects the lawlessness of the Chinese on-line forums, where one person can vilify another person, causing him or her to suffer deep loss to his or her reputation. The Chinese forum moderators, do nothing to stop the vilification of those who do not have any knowledge about Delphi or stop those other individuals attacking others.
For example, recently, a high-school teacher in Juling (China) used his Real Name™ and did not know some functions or asked some basic questions about C++ Builder and Delphi on a certain Chinese Delphi forums. Since, he did not get a straight answer and his English was not good, he was scolded by others, including insults, like - what kind of a teacher would ask basic questions about Delphi?, among other things. He got angry and decided to confront the other people on the Chinese forums. The war of words become very bad and he eventually lost his reputation on-line, his students started calling him the stupid rat, mad teacher (transliterated into English). Since his real-name was known, unknown perpetrators went and impersonate him on-line. He was devastated when he was forced to resign from his position earlier this year.
The high-prices (around ~50,000 Yuan per person) and low wages (~1200 Yuan) in Central China make for amusing questions about C++ Builder and Delphi. If someone asks about Delphi in China, you are either very rich person (read: sucker and ready to be cheated) or a software pirate. Then, using your real-name means that you can your reputation ruined if you speak-up against high-prices, which leads to "no complaints" about high prices of Embarcadero's products in China. The solution for many Chinese companies is to use Microsoft's product or home-grown Red-Flag Linux. Embarcardero had many opportunities to reduce prices from 50,000 Yuan to [20 Yuan per student] or [500 Yuan per developer in a company] in an effort to curb software piracy.
There is no need to think about doing free development work in Delphi, since the cost of Delphi vs. wages is deeply imbalanced. An American Cowboy Delphi developer would charge US$80/hour (and probably be jobless for the next 2 years waiting for that dream job) and easily afford a copy of Delphi, but Delphi in China is very expensive with annual costs eating into profits.
(The people behind CNPack get free software from Embarcardero by becoming an Embarcardero Technology Partner. But for the fellow Delphi developers, will Embarcardero release a version of Delphi that Chinese developers can afford?)
Shooting the messenger instead
When someone reports about software piracy and stealing intellectual property in China, everyone else gangs-up against those persons (including those who report about software piracy -- like this blog), falsely accusing them of telling lies, vilifying them, being software pirates and other misdeeds, but in reality -- their copy-protection mechanisms are deeply flawed, Embarcardero's business subscription business model making slaves out of developers instead.
Software pirates are happy when the good people turn blind-eyes to them, including the absence of legal action and legal notices against several pirate developer forums in China, complete lack of DMCA notices against non-Chinese websites. Delphi in China is almost like non-existent (Mirrors of this blog on blog-copied sites ranks high on Baidu and Google.HK). The result is Delphi-Jobs and C++ Builder jobs are hard to come by, nobody cares about this product.
Chinese companies making computer hardware uses Microsoft Visual C++ with the Windows DDK to build drivers and not interested in Delphi 64-bit offerings since it is so expensive. Buying Delphi for a 5-man team, you could pay for their wages for two years including give them a bonus during Chinese New Year time.
Now, if someone posts for help on support forum, people would not act at all, for fear of being vilified or loss of reputation, to steer clear of unwanted trouble, not to mention about their bosses looking over their shoulders concerned about work-productivity.
Which, is perfectly fine for the Delphi community. Just don't bother the software pirates busy uploading Delphi & Delphi-related software to file-sharing sites because they will frame and vilify you instead.
With translation help from our Correspondent in New York
With updated information given from readers
The problem with C++ Builder and Delphi in China is that Chinese C++ Builder and Delphi developers who try to help another land often end-up with loss of reputation, losing career prospects and no appreciation for their works.
Case Background
In China, there is an infamous case, 'Case of Peng Yu', which a driver supposedly helped an old woman who fell down on the road-side and escorted her to hospital, according to the driver's version.
(Google: "Case of Peng Yu")
The old lady, who took advantage of his generosity said that he knocked down her instead and after a long legal trial, the court ordered the driver to pay the old woman 45,000 Yuan in damages.
Now people think twice before helping others for fear of being falsely accused of wrongdoings while helping others.
Delphi Peng Yu?
The reason why nobody wants to help anymore in the China Delphi community reflects the lawlessness of the Chinese on-line forums, where one person can vilify another person, causing him or her to suffer deep loss to his or her reputation. The Chinese forum moderators, do nothing to stop the vilification of those who do not have any knowledge about Delphi or stop those other individuals attacking others.
For example, recently, a high-school teacher in Juling (China) used his Real Name™ and did not know some functions or asked some basic questions about C++ Builder and Delphi on a certain Chinese Delphi forums. Since, he did not get a straight answer and his English was not good, he was scolded by others, including insults, like - what kind of a teacher would ask basic questions about Delphi?, among other things. He got angry and decided to confront the other people on the Chinese forums. The war of words become very bad and he eventually lost his reputation on-line, his students started calling him the stupid rat, mad teacher (transliterated into English). Since his real-name was known, unknown perpetrators went and impersonate him on-line. He was devastated when he was forced to resign from his position earlier this year.
The high-prices (around ~50,000 Yuan per person) and low wages (~1200 Yuan) in Central China make for amusing questions about C++ Builder and Delphi. If someone asks about Delphi in China, you are either very rich person (read: sucker and ready to be cheated) or a software pirate. Then, using your real-name means that you can your reputation ruined if you speak-up against high-prices, which leads to "no complaints" about high prices of Embarcadero's products in China. The solution for many Chinese companies is to use Microsoft's product or home-grown Red-Flag Linux. Embarcardero had many opportunities to reduce prices from 50,000 Yuan to [20 Yuan per student] or [500 Yuan per developer in a company] in an effort to curb software piracy.
There is no need to think about doing free development work in Delphi, since the cost of Delphi vs. wages is deeply imbalanced. An American Cowboy Delphi developer would charge US$80/hour (and probably be jobless for the next 2 years waiting for that dream job) and easily afford a copy of Delphi, but Delphi in China is very expensive with annual costs eating into profits.
(The people behind CNPack get free software from Embarcardero by becoming an Embarcardero Technology Partner. But for the fellow Delphi developers, will Embarcardero release a version of Delphi that Chinese developers can afford?)
Shooting the messenger instead
When someone reports about software piracy and stealing intellectual property in China, everyone else gangs-up against those persons (including those who report about software piracy -- like this blog), falsely accusing them of telling lies, vilifying them, being software pirates and other misdeeds, but in reality -- their copy-protection mechanisms are deeply flawed, Embarcardero's business subscription business model making slaves out of developers instead.
Software pirates are happy when the good people turn blind-eyes to them, including the absence of legal action and legal notices against several pirate developer forums in China, complete lack of DMCA notices against non-Chinese websites. Delphi in China is almost like non-existent (Mirrors of this blog on blog-copied sites ranks high on Baidu and Google.HK). The result is Delphi-Jobs and C++ Builder jobs are hard to come by, nobody cares about this product.
Chinese companies making computer hardware uses Microsoft Visual C++ with the Windows DDK to build drivers and not interested in Delphi 64-bit offerings since it is so expensive. Buying Delphi for a 5-man team, you could pay for their wages for two years including give them a bonus during Chinese New Year time.
Now, if someone posts for help on support forum, people would not act at all, for fear of being vilified or loss of reputation, to steer clear of unwanted trouble, not to mention about their bosses looking over their shoulders concerned about work-productivity.
Which, is perfectly fine for the Delphi community. Just don't bother the software pirates busy uploading Delphi & Delphi-related software to file-sharing sites because they will frame and vilify you instead.
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Hard to see whats going behind the scenes in China. Not nice to hear abut this. One could start crying ...
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