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[sorchr]

True - but don't you think the negativity surrounding this would have been a lot less, had Lutz himself decided to make it a commercial product?

[michael_dorfman → sorchr]

I don't know; it seems to me that there are a lot of programmers who seem to be opposed on principle to paying for software (which is a kind of strange position, seeing as most of them are also trying to make a living developing software.)