[antlr-interest] Re: Antlr Studio is cool.

[Paul Johnson]

Scott Stanchfield wrote:
> As far as I recall, Prashant never said it would be free. The "video-only"
> previews were just to demonstrate what he was doing and gauge interest. 
> 
> RE "testing a commercial product", have you never heard of public betas?
> Many many many commercial products have public betas, and some even ask that
> you pay to participate (the M$ office betas, for example).
> 
> Absolutely nothing wrong with this, so please chill...

I have no problem with commercial software. The problems, as far as I'm 
concerned, are:

1) the beta expires after 7 days. This is hardly long enough to install 
it, let alone find out if it does anything useful.

2) No-one's going to evaluate a beta of commercial software without some 
idea of what it'll cost if it works.