> I will unequivocally say that crippleware is no longer a viable approach to achieving significant developer mindshare. The landscape is open source $4500 is

> I will unequivocally say that crippleware is no longer a viable approach to achieving significant developer mindshare. The landscape is open source $4500 is definitely steep, but I sure hope you're wrong about commercial development tools no longer being viable. Not because I develop such tools myself, but because I want good tools. How will developers be paid to create great development tools, if it doesn't happen to be in the best interest of a company like Google, Apple, Red Hat, or Joyent to fund the work? See also: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machines/ http://sealedabstract.com/rants/of-wizards-and-magical-machi... We've become really spoiled. And that applies to me as much as anyone.