Yeah, it's called 'profit'. ;-) Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free?
It's not unusual to disable development on the freebie version because one of the first things developers tend to build are importers and exporters to circumvent the need for a commercial license. For the record, Softimage and Alias|Wavefront disabled scripting in their old PLEs years ago for the same reason. Matt Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:06:15 +0000 From: Andy Nicholas <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Official terms for Houdini Indie for anybody who's wondering. To: "Official Softimage Users Mailing List. Hi Cris! Unfortunately Nuke non-commercial gives you limited Python functionality and no 3rd party plugin support, so it forces developers to buy a full license. Annoying from my point of view, but I?m sure they have their reasons. ------ Softimage Mailing List. To unsubscribe, send a mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, and reply to confirm.

