[jbigelow76]

What you propose wouldn't be "risk free", it would be simply transferring your risk to Xamarin (they have to develop and support users that don't end up paying).

Xamarin puts out a quality product, they should charge a price for it relative to the value it can bring a MOTIVATED developer. And if we want to use it we should pay for it. I don't want to wake up tomorrow to see that they dropped the price to 5 bucks hoping to win on volume only to find out soon afterward that Microsoft paid them 25 million to stop development.