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While I enjoy being able to use tools for free, as a developer I do appreciate the value of paying for tools.

The said teams need to be able to live from something.

Netbeans and Eclipse can be free, because Sun/Oracle/IBM get their money from somewhere else.

JetBrains sells only InteliJ based tools.




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