I don't mean for mass distribution, obviously the 100€ seems reasonable as a low barrier of entry, I mean for personal use

You had to pay for Borland, Visual Studio VB etc for any use including personal.

They came on disks and you did not get the disk unless you paid for it first.

You can argue the last 20 years of free tools is the anomaly

	▲	lenkite 12 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		And they didn't keep grabbing your money. It was a done deal. Apple still takes 30% commission on app sales and in-app purchases beyond your Apple Developer Program. In EU, Apple charges €0.50 per annual install for every first-time install per year over a threshold of 1 million downloads, even for free apps.
	▲	wildzzz 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Visual Studio Express was free and came out in 2005
	▲	Iulioh 18 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Generation(s) of development grew up in that environment, it is not an anomaly but the normality for everything but apple