To "get around" the license restrictions make sure you own a business which is hired to do work, as opposed to having people hire you.
Not sure if I follow. The EULA mentions companies too.
In any case, Delphi's challenges have less to do with license terms than they do with macro trends in software development. If you look at this little article posted yesterday…
https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/introducing-delphi-cplusplusbuilder-community-edition…you see Delphi Community Edition's target demographic: "freelance developers, startups, students and non-profits." What do startups, students and non-profits have in common? Well, no money for one, at least not at first. So it makes sense to make it free for them.
Everybody is chasing startups these days. For example, if you're a legitimate startup, you may qualify for US$ 10,000 in AWS credits from Amazon. A startup that grows into a much bigger company is likely to stay with AWS for their Web apps and services rather than move to something else (Azure).
One problem for Delphi with this line of thinking is that startups and students often don't use Windows. Delphi's compilers and IDE only run on Windows. But if you're doing mobile development, you probably have a Mac. And startups and students generally don't do much desktop app development, which would normally target Windows. And if you have Linux servers, Delphi Community Edition / Professional does not target Linux.
Even Microsoft has a Mac IDE now that targets iOS and Android, but that was only via acquisition, from a culture that understood Mac and mobile, albeit through a C# lens. Creating a Mac IDE from scratch was probably never an option, and is probably not an option for Delphi either. You can see a similar issue with Lazarus on Mac, where it's not very Mac-friendly and does not support iOS development, and thus would not hold much appeal for many of those "freelance developers, startups, students and non-profits."
It's been said that iPhone was Windows' extinction event. If so, then it follows that many of the languages and tools associated with traditional Windows desktop app development would also be in decline. The mammals won.
https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.htmlhttp://go.flatironschool.com/beyond-the-bootcamp?utm_campaign=Blog%20Posts&utm_source=Blog#Language-Trendshttps://www.itwriting.com/blog/11008-remobjects-elements-mix-and-match-languages-and-platforms-as-you-like.html