Re: Whoopee, free Intellij

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 13:12:33 GMT, David Segall <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

Originally there was the open source Eclipse and NetBeans and a free
version of JBuilder. Then Oracle cut the price of JDeveloper from
$US1000.00 to zero. Not long after Sun decided to give away Sun Java
Studio to anyone who registered as a Sun developer. IBM's IDEs are
based on Eclipse so Eclipse is basically the (free) entry level
edition. Even Microsoft has a free entry level version of Visual J#.
IntelliJ are relenting; "individual developers" can buy IDEA for half
price (around $US250.00).

What amazes me is so many hard headed businesses still think it is in
their interests to put out free software. You'd think the tendency
would be to let somebody else do it. Somehow, some other project of
theirs must be indirectly benefitting enough to fund this largesse.

On the other paw, software pricing is goofy. It does not take in to
account properly how expensive making the first copy is and how little
effort it takes to make extra copies. I think software rental with
very low rates in the way to go to maximize the total user base, which
means lower overall prices and more profit.

That way people who even want to use a program every two years can
still afford the deluxe, totally up to date version.
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