I've just started using this product again after 
a few years. And I see that it's been upgraded 
from the 7.5 version I have to 8.0. So I looked 
at the prices and fell out of my chair!

I want to use my linux system but there's no way. 
More and more developers are switching to linux 
where most everything is free. This is where the 
market is heading. It should be cheaper than on 
M$. Yet you've priced youself out of 
consideration for us at home users. I seriously 
think you should reconsider your distribution 
process so you can capture the masses on their 
private linux installations yet still be able to 
get the money that's needed for supporting your 
product in large company environments.

Bottom line, changing your licensing structure 
will get you much more money. It's outdated and 
keeping the multitudes of potential users away!

I do agree with your analysis of PC-lint vs.
FlexeLint pricing. UNIX is no longer purely a
corporate solution.

Until Gimpel software fixes this, do be aware that
PC-lint runs just fine on Linux as a regular
console application and works just fine on G++ code.

LINT-NT.EXE only imports 57 symbols from
KERNEL32.DLL, all of which are flawlessly
implemented in Wine. There is no performance
difference when running it this way.

Simply install Wine (http://www.winehq.com/), then
just type:

$wine lint-nt.exe [parameters]

Or, if you add the appropriate line to
"/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register," you can just
type:

$lint-nt.exe [parameters]

For more details on running Win32 console apps
under Linux with Wine, see:

http://www.winehq.com/site/docs/wine-user/cui-programs

See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt
for more info about binfmt_misc.