Comment by leephillips

When I was in grad school in the '80s living on my $430/month stipend I bought TeXtures, an implementation of TeX for the (new) Macintosh, for $400 so I could use it to write my thesis (in plain TeX) on my Mac Plus ($1400 with a steep educational discount). Reading the comment of a company that thinks $99 is too much to pay for a tool that they would like to use in their work is pretty funny. I can understand balking at software because the source is not available, but $99 for something to be used as as a professional tool is trivial.