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This is of course not including the yearly Unity subscription, where Unity Pro costs $2,040 per seat (although they may have Enterprise pricing)
Absolutely ridiculous. Many Unity devs are saying they're switching engines on social media.
I’ve literally developed Java applications and never heard of the “Java business model”, Java costs nothing for its developers or users, other than dignity.
I presume you mean the open-source versions of the JVM published by other companies like IBM, or maybe there's some other distinction that I don't understand? As far as I know, Oracle Java has required a paid license for the last few years: https://redresscompliance.com/decoding-oracle-java-licensing-java-licensing-changes-2023/
Right. I've been working with Java ever since 1.1.6 back in the late 1990s (so, yeah, 25 years now). I get having opinions about Java and the JVM, but there is no business model associated with it unless they're referring to what Oracle has tried to do with Java in the past (the licensing and whatnot) which is immaterial these days due to OpenJDK and various other Java/JVM providers.
This is probably simple confusion is all. Because the poster isn't wrong about everything being taxed and the consumer always having to pay for it. Greed is running rampant and unchecked now and while it has been this way for some time, it seems to have accelerated during and since the pandemic.
Dignity AND sanity.