Quote - Are you absolutely positive about the $99 for the D|S SDK?  Won't that make the other developers a bit peeved after paying $1000 for it?  I know as I've looked into it several times - once when it was still new, very confusing, but free and then again recently.  But that $1000/yr tag just didn't work for me.

To make the point.  It's not that DAZ is making developers pay $1000.  It's TrollTech (Qt) requiring this for their licensing fees through DAZ.

The deal was that once you made the license fee in sales, the fee got refunded.
It was only ever free when it was in Beta (which required an NDA, IIRC) .

All three (or four ?) must have managed that or been bought out.