That's exactly what I meant by bone headed: their idea of software is very expensive and secretive, rather than their products forming the skeleton of everything else as I feel they should. They talk about their free version like they're selling shareware.
I guess if you're making $125,000 per seat you don't have to worry about innovating your business model too much. :)
I'm surprised no one has released an open source clone, though. It's fairly well documented and I think the Q verbs would be a really smart way to manipulate data in an open framework. Plus there are some performance guys out there in the open source world that could probably best even Arthur
