OT?: Question for Tommorow's QnA with KB

[Tim Fischer]

This is probably off topic (especially given Ken's statements about his
position at this meeting today) but	I was thinking about something and I
figured I'd throw it out here.

Why does a single user development kit for FP cost money?  Wouldn't it be
great if some kid who just wanted to learn programming and happened to hear
about this thing called FilePro could go to the web and download a single
user development package to start chipping away at?  I know when I was
getting into programming, I got the tools that were available for free (or
next to free) figuring that I'm not dumping money on a development platform
that I may hate or never turn into a profit.

Assuming that 1 out of every 10 people who download the development kit have
a need to purchase the runtime environment, this could turn into a profit
for FPTech.  Also, getting more developers out there isn't a bad idea.  

Now I know you've got the Demo version available, but last time I checked,
there was a limit on lines of code per table - and it was pretty low (250?).


Just an idea I was thinking about.

Tim 

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