Macromedia DevNet

Macromedia DevNet [via CNet]. Who are these people using freakin' Dreamweaver and Flash that need to drop $1,500 on DevNet.  It's upgrades and their resource kits.  And upgrade costs what, $200 bucks for each piece of software?  So you are paying $1000+ for info most people have available for free on the web?  Hmmmm.  I have no problem with the subscription system (god bless MSDN Subscriptions), but it's kinda like paying $900 bucks a year for Sports Illustrated and access to CNNSI.  You could easily buy the magazine at the store and hit up another website for the info. 

I feel I'm missing something here.  $1,500 seems a bit high for what you are getting.  Oh, BTW, Tim's blog got me interested in Flash Remoting until I saw the price tag.  Which took a couple of days to find out, because Macromedia's "Dynamic content" was down yesterday.  Not a good sign when evaluating their dynamic content type applications...

I'm retarded:
Here's the Subscription levels. A little like MSDN subscription levels, but I can't fathom needing all the macromedia tools all at once.  I guess some people can't fathom why I'd need the MSDN libray.