Perhaps if they didn't allow things to stagnate they could have kept up the assumption that dev tools weren't free. A lot of open source development is predica

Perhaps if they didn't allow things to stagnate they could have kept up the assumption that dev tools weren't free. A lot of open source development is predicated on "I want this, why doesn't it exist?". Tools that already exist don't get as much interest (example: MS Office vs Open Office).