I used this at work for months. When it quit, I just reloaded and kept going. It was for some local tooling work I was doing. I never ran into any of the limita

I used this at work for months. When it quit, I just reloaded and kept going. It was for some local tooling work I was doing. I never ran into any of the limitations save the timeout, which for me was no big deal. I already owned a version at home for myself (it was, like $249 or something at the time), but this was also a time where folks still paid for software. Not everything was done on Linux with GCC, although Java was free at the time. A year before this I had my previous company pony up the $$$$ for Delphi's Enterprise edition (whatever it was called). That was a lot more than LW was. I contemplated getting Franz, but I never wanted to call for a quote, and they didn't publish prices. But I know they were expensive as well. Smalltalk, Lisp, Delphi, Visual Studio, everything cost money. And though Java was free, lots of folks were selling IDEs for it. I used Emacs back in the day, and we paid silly amounts of $$$$ for WebLogic.