It's funny to me that people will happily spend $40 for a t-shirt, $100+ for a pair of shoes, $300 for an ounce of weed -- but ask them for $200 for a professional development tool and they won't budge.
I for one, think the price tag is reasonable.
I for one, think the price tag is reasonable.
You would pay $40 for a T-shirt if it were some sort of collector’s item you could resell. You would pay $100 for running shoes because that’s less than $15000 for knee surgery, and you like having comfy feet. You would pay $150–300 for an ounce of weed because you know what weed is like, and you like it, and the price is driven up by legal issues. But what justification can you come up with for spending $200 on what is essentially a productivity tool, if it won’t necessarily make you more productive?
But book stores, unlike the company that produces mocl, won't give my money back if I find that the book didn't help me within the first 30 days.
So in this case, it's even a relatively safe gamble (assuming of course, that the company does in fact, honor the 30-day money-back thing).
I don't blame you or what you are trying to do, it is the nature of the beast. Introducing a new programming environment is hard enough when it is free, it is nearly impossible when it isn't.
Nowadays there seems to exist a trend developers should work for free.