> This is a little off the purpose of the lists, but anyway just to let you > all know. It will be possible to license IDEA to a personal name (not a > company) for $200 from December 20, 2001 until January 1, 2001.
That's pretty cool. The price is currently too high for single users I think. However I don't understand why you are doing this for 1.5 weeks unless you just hoping to get some christmas gift trade! FWIW, IDEA is really great. However I do not feel that many individuals are happy to pay that kind of money for an IDE, especially when you can refresh your eval key quite easily. After all, at the end of the day you can always go back to "vi" and "javac" for free. I know � the increase in productivity far outweighs the cost of the software, but many people do not see things that way � the loss of productivity through inferior tools is a "hidden" cost - "...I can always rename all those packages manually, just like I always did before IDEA" My point? I think everyone would sell a lot more software if it was much cheaper. You can buy a computer game for $50 or less (which is too much for a game!). I think that's about the maximum the bulk of people can stomach for software. Why do you think half the world has a ripped off copy of Adobe Photoshop on their hard disk? If IDEA was $50 I'd buy two copies � one for me and one for my friend who can't afford it. There are so many free solutions out there, the "bang for buck" has to be HUGE to differentiate something like IDEA from free IDEs. Most of the major commercial IDEs have an non-time limited free version for personal use. IDEA doesn't, and that's probably why you're seeing lots of eval key requests every 3 weeks. You'd get far more successful developer evangelism too I reckon. I know I'd be telling everyone to get a registered copy if it was a lot cheaper than it is. I know there's a lot of work that goes in to it! Isn't it a case of 100,000 users @ $50 rather than $1,000 @ $200 ? Cheers _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
