[antlr-interest] Re: Price of Antlr Studio

[Prashant Deva]

Some people will probably now email me saying its not in the 'spirit'
of ANTLR which is free to make an IDE which is commercial.

Well yes, even i think that it is wrong that i have to pay for my
computer,cell phone, table , chair , bed, etc. I think all those
people are evil bastards who dont work their ass off day and night to
provide me free stuff.

If you want to enjoy the freedom and the spirit of free software you
can try the other plugins for antlr that exist(no offence meant to
their developers whatsoever), but if you want a kick ass IDE that will
make write grammars easy and almost trivial use ANTLR Studio :)

And stop comparing to ANTLR Works. Thats for antlr 3 which wont be out
for another year.

PRASHANT


On 9/22/05, Prashant Deva <prashant.deva at gmail.com> wrote:
> The price of ANTLR Studio for a single user license would be -
>
> 49$
>
> For all those who are against the commercialization of ANTLR Studio-
>
> I dont know why you guys are against commercial software. I think
> commercial is the best way to develop a software, especially one like
> an IDE . NO,I *DO NOT* think free, open source, gpled software is the
> best way to develop software. I think money is a good motive to
> develop software and if possible I would really like to make money by
> doing so than in any other way. Yes, i do think money motivates one to
> develop software. You do tend to give something a higher priority if
> you get paid for it. And if you give a higher priority to something it
> does turn out better.  I do think ANTLR would a far better software
> and there would be far earlier releases of it if we all paid Terence
> 500$ each time we downloaded it. (No offense meant Terence. Please
> dont take this in the wrong way.)
>
> Take for example eclipse itself. Sure its free, but the developers who
> develop it are paid highly by IBM to sit and code, cause it serves IBM
> in their strategy for software services which makes them money
> eventually. They dont give eclipse for free cause they like you and
> care for you.
>
> As i have already mentioned before i want to make the best IDE for
> ANTLR and and i dont think i can do that by giving it for free. If you
> can please go ahead and make one.
>
> Someone mentioned something about 'freedom'.  Hell, its an IDE , what
> freedom do you want other than to use it? If you want to develop on
> top of it maybe in the next version i can put in an interface for
> plugins.
> Of course, if by freedom you mean that you take the source , change it
> a wee bit and add your name to it, then NO , you cant do that and i
> would not want you to do that either.
>
> PRASHANT
>