The "overcharging customers" comment was more a reflection on the feelings that the $300 cost has generated, rather than a comment on actual intent or behavior.
We've all been trying to have two arguments simultaneously...one rational and one subjective. Tough to do... -----Original Message----- From: Josh Nathanson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:57 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion Builder Released! Strictly speaking, there's no such thing as "overcharging customers." If you think it costs too much, you don't buy it, or you find a cheaper product. That's how the free market works. There are some exceptions to this, for example in the realm of health care, where you may need a prescription drug to stay alive. But software definitely is not one of the exceptions. -- Josh -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 2:50 PM To: cf-talk Subject: RE: ColdFusion Builder Released! And that's all well and good. If I could develop a plug-in for Eclipse, I'd try to sell it. Making money is *not* evil. Overcharging customers (which is the underlying issue driving people's comments, I believe) is... I hope Adobe had to pay a hefty licensing fee to the Eclipse Foundation to build on the platform...that would be great, to see Adobe contributing something to the community that feeds them... -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 5:25 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: ColdFusion Builder Released! As just an FYI, I believe commercial products on Eclipse are part of their plan: http://www.eclipse.org/org/ "A unique aspect of the Eclipse community and the role of the Eclipse Foundation is the active marketing and promotion of Eclipse projects and wider Eclipse ecosystem. A healthy vibrant ecosystem that extends beyond the Eclipse open source community to include things like commercial products based on Eclipse, other open source projects using Eclipse, training and services providers, magazines and online portals, books, etc, are all key to the success of the Eclipse community." On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Raymond Camden <[email protected]> wrote: > By this argument it means no one could charge for Eclipse plugins. > There are quite a few very decent, very well done Eclipse plugins that > are not free. Shoot, by this argument no one should sell work they > develop on Railo, since Railo is free. I'm sure you didn't imply that, > but I think it is great the Eclipse plugin allows for this type of > market. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:332053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
