On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Rick Faircloth <[email protected]>wrote:
> And, again, Adobe is free to charge whatever they like, but it would be > nice to feel like Adobe wanted to help it's community thrive by > contributing > to its success without always charging so much to enable that success. But they're not "charging so much". They're effectively giving away an IDE (you can think of it as giving FlashBuilder to CF developers or giving CFBuilder to Flex developers). In doing so they're cross-marketing and stand to grow either the CF community or the Flex community or both, which could in turn help either or both of the communities thrive. I understand that this doesn't fit in well with what -you- need specifically or what -you- want specifically. That doesn't make it wrong. I think long-term this is the more effective strategy. Releasing CFBuilder for $100 to the existing developers would make the existing developers happy (kinda... I'm sure somebody would still complain). But exactly would that help its community "thrive"? -- Charlie Griefer http://charlie.griefer.com/ I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:332051 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
