There has been a lot of discussion about the pricing of Radio Userland ever since it was announced that a small charge will be made for it once it's out of beta [Radio UserLand]. In August - when I had a lot of time on my hands and exam marking was an incentive for displacement activites - I had the bones of an idea* which is archived on eGroups here. Dave responded

That's very good Duncan! Almost, but I don't want to charge for Radio UserLand, and I don't want to limit people in their ability to program, quite the opposite.

Personally, I have no problem with Userland charging (a modest amount) for RU but I can see why others that may have predicated a business strategy on a free version of RU may be upset at the announcement that it won't be free. Of course, I think it would be great to have a free (cut-down) version of RU as this removes one of the major barriers to widespread adoption. I hope Userland and the RU community can come to some amicable arrangement regarding the free vs not-free version(s).

* Note: the current version of RU has wildly exceeded my expectations for 'programmability' so the ideas presented in August have largely been overtaken by developments.

Incidentally, Jim also believed it would be free

For some reason I thought it was going to be free. So did Duncan.

Jim's link to my page that states Dave had made assurances that it would be free was written a week or so after the assurance had been given.