I am excited because of the license. If he is successful then that means that other programmers respect and appreciate his work as a programmer to exchange money for it. That means that other programmers (me, in particular) have a chance of making money by selling software, potentially even to other programmers.

It is amazing to me that so many programmers refuse to purchase any software, unless it comes bundled with a hardware purchase (Mac OS X, Windows). Hardware is worth hundreds or thousands of dollars but software is worth nothing?

If you want to sell this sort of stuff, you should aim it at .Net programmers. As generalising as this may sound, they are used to paying money for software, so are more likely to buy yours. Not so in the open source world. Naturally, you'll want to buy yourself a copy of Visual Studio, probably buy a copy of ReSharper as well, to get yourself started.

Whatever you pay for the licence, you don't get to modify the code (unless I'm misunderstanding what "no-derivative" means). That's what "de-excited" me about it.

For all non open-source projects it makes sense to have a no-derivative works license. You would be putting yourself out of business without it.

Awesome script, I'll definitely be using it in some projects.

I agree that it makes sense to prohibit the distribution of modified copies, but it is usually better to let people modify the software as long as they keep those modifications internal.

$3 for a site really isn't that bad, all things considered. It's less than many image downloads on istockphoto.

it's not the price i'm worried about... it's more like what if this guy gets run over by a truck one day? can anyone else make fixes/enhancements to the code? Do I have to keep paying for future updates? (I didn't read the license...)

the more i think about it the more I regret posting this... not to mention for most ppl on this site, they will want the $50-255 dollar license and not the $3 version

This is probably the best tooltip script around today, the amount of detailing that went into this exceptional.

I think he has every right to ask a price for it. That also shows he has the intention to maintain it. You can't create the same thing for that price, unless you work for less then $0,25 hour.

Getting something like this working cross browser takes a lot of time. Even for commercial use, this is a bargain.

i'm not saying he has or doesn't have a right to charge for something - just like MS charges for VS2008. I'm just saying that this doesn't cater to my self interest in the long run.

I haven't seen any other tool tips this good in the open source world, but I'd rather use something good enough open source than use something closed; given history open source will catch up sooner or later

These are JavaScript tooltips, it isn't some breakthrough technology. Your company won't collapse if the guy disappears.

If his stuff is better than the open source stuff, go for it.

You can always move to the open source code later. And think, by then it might have caught up with him, and you'll only have to update your code once, rather than each step as the open source code catches up (assuming it does).

good point

Don't feel bad about posting it, I'm sure it caters other peoples needs, like mine.

I've taken a look at his other scripts, great stuff, frequent updates. I don't think open source will be catching up any time soon.

frequent updates yes... but you need $299 up-front to take advantage of it, unless you feel like continually giving $50...

For unlimited use $295 is a good price. As a programmer, I couldn't code it for that. I think others using this on a commercial basis would agree.

I agree, charging even for non-commercial use is a bit disappointing.

yeah... didnt't notice till now =/