Daniel Pitts wrote:
Actually, I'd be amazed if you could afford a java-development computer
and NOT afford a $35/yr domain name. No one said you had to have a
website, just a domain :-)
The latter is a *recurring* cost, however, and what good is a domain
without a website worthy of a separate domain? Oh -- naming your Java
packages. Of course, that amounts to a defacto $35 annual license
renewal fee for using supposedly free development tools, I hope you
realize...
unless of course you say screw it and just use a made up name unlikely
to be duplicated by anyone else.
I hate to contemplate the amount of refactoring that's needed for any
project still in use when the original domain lapses for whatever reason
to keep it in compliance. Even using Eclipse. And remember, software is
ALWAYS still in use long after everyone planned for it to be. That means
after the domain is sunsetted, after anything else is ... etc.
Is the domain namespace really scarce enough to justify not handing
freebies out to everyone in the world, their dog, AND their organization
for that matter? Charging a not-insignificant (and recurring!) fee for a
non-scarce thing like an identifier smacks of capitalism run amok. It
amounts to an online property tax, being levied by private business, on
the online equivalent of land holdings. What ever became of the good ol'
days of fighting violent, bloody wars in miserable weather in the name
of things like "no taxation without representation!"? :P