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

[Gevik babakhani]

Perhaps Parshat can shed some light on this.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Paul Johnson
> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:56 PM
> Cc: antlr-interest at antlr.org
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Re: Antlr Studio is cool.
> 
> 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.