Pricing / entry cost for this tool

[Dan Shafer]

Frank....

Not one major development tool has ever succeeded charging for  
runtime delivery. Not one. You buy a C++ compiler, you don't pay the  
compiler maker for each copy of your app. Companies that have tried  
runtime royalty deals over the years -- and there have been many,  
with a staggering array of ideas for the best way to structure the  
fees -- have abandoned their plan or gone out of business or both.

And with so many free (open source and otherwise) compilers and IDEs  
out there, it would be suicide for anyone to try to charge per-copy  
distribution fees in today's market.


On Nov 25, 2005, at 7:21 PM, Frank R wrote:

> But, the door opens to Much Greater revenue when you have scenarios  
> like - 0$ to use the IDE idefinitely, and $X when you deploy your  
> applications.   You catch more long term fish that way.



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