Am I imagining things, or is Apple turning more into a money-grubbing tightwad?
Hadn't visited the Apple Developer Connection website in a while, so I popped in to check what's new. First off, I'm greeted with a new licensing agreement that you must agree to. Then, if I understood everything correctly, there's a whole new membership tier arrangement. The "Online" membership, apparently still free for now, gives you the ADC newsletter and just access to XCode updates but nothing else. "Select" strikes your wallet at $500/year and gets you a few more goodies. "Premier" really looks like a Marine assault on your finances, to the tune of $3,500/year so you really must work your butt off to overcome that hemorrhage; ah, but you get "free" tickets to the WDC... And there's also a "Student" version at $99/year, but you must be a bona-fide student to qualify. Has this just been a change of name, or is ADC going full-commercial in the near term? Might have misunderstood the legalese, but it seemed to me that the Online membership now offers much less resources than it used to, and all the others have gone up in price. If my suspicions are true, what does this bode for Fink? If all of us source-based users will now have to pay big bucks for the compilers & tools, will we have to become binary leeches and depend on the goodwill and hardiness of a few top developers willing to foot the costs? Can somebody please explain all this mess to me? J. Courcoul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
