Programmers Editor

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at alpha1.csd.uwm.edu> wrote:
> This is a commercial annoucement.
> is it welcome here at comp.lang.python?

has been in the past, at least.  python.org has the
following to say about the python license:

    The gist of it is that Python is absolutely free, even
    for commercial use (including resale).

and the newsgroup has always reflected that, as
long as the emphasis has been on Python.

...

I'm 110% confident that all c.l.py readers are smart
enough to compare commercial offerings with free-
ware, and make up their own minds on what to use.

but to help them, it's probably better to put up
a site somewhere comparing different tools (or
just pointing to them), than to follow up on every
announcement with a plug for your own favourite
tool.  with dozens of development tools out there,
it doesn't really scale if everyone would do that ;-)

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