Jon, Thanks for taking the time to write that long and considerate reply.
First: It was not my intention to advertise the product by posting here. In fact I would not have "dared" post here for fear of it being considered like like that, had it not been suggested to me by a respected member of your community. Obviously it was my decision to post. Second: > ... You are offering free use of your tool to open source > developers, but what about the rest of our community? > They get to use crippleware? Is netbeans crippleware, compared to forte? The free version I was proposing (and for which I offered no details simply because they would have to be decided, with your help had you been interested) would have made understanding the jakarta codebase easier for everybody interested in understanding it. Easier than using javadoc plus the code by itself for example. Third: > > Free Feedback: Your offer for us to helps give > you feedback for free > does not make much sense to me and is personally one > of my major irks about > commercial software and is one of the reasons why I > rarely purchase > software. Let's see, I purchase your software, find > the bugs in it and then > tell you about them so that you can fix them so that > I can have the > privilege of having a piece of software that I > purchased actually work the > way that it should have in the first place. > Something seems wrong with that > logic. I think you should be paying me. :-) Well, just cause I like arguing: do you not have any expectations that non-commercial software works? If you do, couldn't you apply the same reasoning to it and come to the conclusion that all software should be just perfect and everybody be paid to provide feedback? Fourth: > ... Free Viral Marketing: Yes, that's the point :) Both to stay alive (your #5), and to ensure that a lot of work, which does help java development (there is enough feedback to back that up in a somewhat less biased way), will not be lost. > Therefore, my recommendation to you would be to > advertise and give away your software in places > where commercial software development is accepted. > ... Yes, I take your point. I made a mistake (posting here). My apologies, and thanks again for your long reply, -Carlo __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
