"Chris Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why do you think half the world has a ripped off copy of Adobe Photoshop
> > on their hard disk?
>
> Because they are dishonest, cheap and lazy.  They wouldn't buy it
> if it was $1...if they could still get it for free.

Adobe released Photoshop LE for $100. I assume they did that so fewer people
would pirate the full version of Photoshop.

Anyway, back to IDEA. I am very happy that my company bought a license for me
and that my work computer is also my home computer so I can use IDEA at home.
I write software in my spare time, but I don't have a lot of spare time these
days so I don't use IDEA for personal stuff enough to justify spending even
$200 on it. If I didn't already have a copy of IDEA, I'd respect IntelliJ's
price and go back to JEdit or try Eclipse or something.

I have seen other dev tools have a very cheap license with the stipulation
that it cannot be used to create commercial software (or shareware in some
cases). I don't know how well this works out for the companies, but it seems
to work out well for the freeware/personal developers.


Erik



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