posted 04-06- 09:00 PM               

If you want a good IDE to build and distribute C/C++ applications, don't buy this one - it comes hobbled by an application non-distribution license agreement. In other words, you can build whatever you want, you can't distribute it. No freeware, no shareware, and definitely no commercial. It doesn't say it any where on the box, and has no indications that such a impediment exists. The box misleads you into thinking that you are getting everything on the box and has a nice list of things supposedly you can do:
"Earn money - or just have fun" - if you can't distrubute the final application, how can you earn money, therefore, how much fun is it?
"Unlimited Choices" - do I want to install it on the C: drive or what? You have no choices regarding distribution other than to plunk down more money to upgrade the license.
"Professional yools that are powerful, yet both easy to use and affordable to own." - not if you want to distribute it.

I will post the price for 'upgrading' to a legally non-hobbled CodeWarrior. I trusted these people to be professionals and they basically lied to me.

I'm not saying the product is crap, just highly mislabled. For $50, I expected a limited feature edittion that I didn't have to clunk around 2,000,000 features that I never use and could distribute home brewed applications to my hearts content.