Re: Disassembler

"Alistair" <alistair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1141137034.249009.40630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Are these help files an integral part of the system or are they
something that you have to buy-in as an add-on? I only ask coz I'm
ignorant in OO.


I'd feel ripped off if I payed for an OO component, took it for a spin, and then found out that I had to pay extra for the documentation.

In the case of Java, Sun gives the code library away for free, and gives the documentation away for free as well (it's accessible at http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/)

JFreeChart is a library for drawing charts and graphs. The library itself is free (with source code included), but you have to pay for the documentation. You can pour through the source code and try to figure out how to use the components yourself, which is the approach I've been using for my projects which used JFreeChart.

Any business model is possible, of course, and I don't mind if you have to pay for the component and the documentation seperately, as long as that is made clear from the start. What I was complaining about earlier is paying for the component, and then mistakenly thinking you've got everything included.

- Oliver

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