Well I get upset when IT guys complain about stuff being not free and price hikes. It is a pet peeve with the software developers whingeing about the cost of t

Well I get upset when IT guys complain about stuff being not free and price hikes. It is a pet peeve with the software developers whingeing about the cost of tools. I guess I overreacted to your statement. I remember spending over $300 in todays money for Delphi when it first come out in 1995, and in my view it was well spent. It wasn't even in employment related then. I considered the tool useful for my personal desires. So seeing professional people complain about the prices of tools which are extremely low-priced when adjusted for inflation kind of bugs me. As the guys said their prices haven't gone up for seven years. If you consider JetBrains subscriptions expensive, try Delphi, or the commercial versions of Lisp and Smalltalk.