What did you replace it with?
Why wouldn't iText deserve your money if you were using it in your commercial product?
Why wouldn't iText deserve your money if you were using it in your commercial product?
Because they're not even saying how much money. "Call us for a quote" usually means "Let's start the sales dance in which we try to gauge how much we can fleece you for", which also means it's not going to be a quick answer.
For me it means the software is immediately categorized as "to be considered only once all other options have been exhausted".
A developer might be quite willing to go to their manager with, "Hey, can we buy X? It will cost $Y, and save us $Z worth of time." But "Call for a quote" is a quagmire: They can't (and don't want to) negotiate prices themselves, and they also don't want to annoy their boss by causing them to spend the next 3 months being hounded by sales people.
The request a quote style of pricing is almost exclusively for corporate buyers. It allows them to go out to lunch and get the purchasing department involved and make management feel like an important part of the process.
"Call for a quote" means they expect to have their sales staff talk to your management or procurement department to negotiate a price, do a face-to-face meeting if possible, so they can see how much you're willing to pay.