Sort of reminds me of IAR's compilers for embedded systems. Their pricing models only seem to hurt their business by irritating their customers. As our company

Sort of reminds me of IAR's compilers for embedded systems. Their pricing models only seem to hurt their business by irritating their customers. As our company grew, it became more cost effective, less stressful, and less risky to port our code base over to GCC than to keep dealing with increasingly more contrived licenses.