David, To use an old and tired cliche... It's the principle. I doubt anyone here consideres $35 much for what it is. It's more the fact that it was free, it was taken over by a company that claimed it would be free... but it's not going to be free. As I said before, I would have no problem if they kept the free version available but then said... "or you could have this shiny new version for just $35". That would be acceptable. But that's apparently not what's going to happen.
Ultimately, I dont really care that much, I think I've used it twice ever. But I think I'm justified in not liking what's being done. I'm sure it's been done with other projects in the past and will continue to be done in the future by any number of companies. David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 11:39, David Boccabella <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been watching my mailbox fill up with this.. well essentially whinging. > > Its not as if they decided to charge several hundred for a package which can > be pretty handy to have. The fact that they are offering a lifetime > subscription for $35 is pretty good value. And what is $35?, certainly far > less than the development environment that it works in conjunction with. > > In fact if one cost up the value of your development PC, your Visual Studio > Application, and a couple of reasonable data connections then $35 is hardly > anything. > > And I am very sure that there will be hacks and cracks around for it is the > $35 proves to be too much. > > Dave >
