I'm guessing that this is a regulatory compliance thing :/
Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
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"Xcode is still free, as long as you pay the $99 a year to be a registered Apple developer". Sort of like the way Visual Studio is free, as long as you pay $800+ to be an MSDN subscriber? That's an odd way to judge something as still being "free". From where I'm standing Xcode is not free now, it costs 5 bucks or a hundred bucks, though the version that costs a hundred bucks includes some other stuff too.
VS Express is free - you can download it right now - no subscription required.
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#23Why put a barrier, however small, to people contributing to the app stores?
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#24I wonder why they charge for the tools to develop on their platform. Charging for the forums/bug tracker is probably a good way to keep people out who aren't that serious about development, but I don't get why they charge for XCode. It's not like they'd make any relevant amount of money off XCode.
To be fair, this is a $5 fee for a full-featured version of their development tools. Compare that to the cost of a full-featured Visual Studio.
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#25Xcode 3 appears to still be a free download. Xcode 4 is free if you're a registered developer (which costs $99/year), or $5 from the app store. gcc is obviously still free, if you get it from anyone other than Apple.
In my experience, Apple's gcc is still the recommended version.
Hopefully solid non-apple gcc packages come out. I don't like the idea of paying $5 to apple to develop generic unix applications on OS X.
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#26Once the old free Xcode 3 has vanished, this neatly puts an end to stuff like Homebrew or MacPorts. I really don't care about paying the $4, but for many people without credit cards or unwilling to use iTunes/the app store, OSX just has become a lot less useful.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's still free, for registered Apple developers who pay the $99 a year.
If you are really into developing for Apple, $99/year is not that bad. Still, the free-as-in-beer Xcode attracted those curious with the platform. Don't forget those who can't set up a store account (Brazil was on this list until not that long ago) will not be able to even try it.
Xcode 3 is still available for free download.
Though I really don't think it's a good idea to make Xcode 4 non-free.
Re: Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
#29Xcode 3 appears to still be a free download. Xcode 4 is free if you're a registered developer (which costs $99/year), or $5 from the app store. gcc is obviously still free, if you get it from anyone other than Apple.
The question in my mind is what they will do with Xcode for OSX Lion. I don't use Xcode itself, but I always install it to get the tools and libraries I need to compile other software.
If Lion requires users to pay $5 to get the necessary dependencies to build other free software tools, this will be a step back from the status quo.
Re: Xcode now costs US$ 4.99
#30Once the old free Xcode 3 has vanished, this neatly puts an end to stuff like Homebrew or MacPorts. I really don't care about paying the $4, but for many people without credit cards or unwilling to use iTunes/the app store, OSX just has become a lot less useful.
Fortunately Homebrew and MacPorts can just ship a gcc and get on with things.