[antlr-interest] Price of Antlr Studio

[Gevik babakhani]

For what it can do. I think $49 is very reasonable price :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antlr-interest-bounces at antlr.org [mailto:antlr-interest-
> bounces at antlr.org] On Behalf Of Prashant Deva
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 12:25 AM
> To: ANTLR Interest
> Subject: [antlr-interest] Price of Antlr Studio
> 
> 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