Oh, and to address the complaints about how this isn't helping the community to grow or to thrive... it's free for educational purposes. I think that will go a lot further towards growing the community and helping it thrive than it would be to give it away to existing developers.
Adobe may actually have given this some thought (gasp)! :) On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Charlie Griefer <[email protected]>wrote: > 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. > -- 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:332052 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
