Weak sauce Adobe, weak sauce

So the Blogosphere scuttle but is that the cool posters Adobe has for Flex and AS class inheritance.... not Free!

Ryan Stewart and Rey Bango cover this as well.

I completely understand, these things aren't cheap to make, but is it worth the cost of good vibes in the developer communitee? Is the thousand dollars I shelled out for MAX not enough, can't 20 bucks of that pay for my poster?

MAX is by far the most expensive conference I've attended, and now they want 20 more of my dollars? I'm NOT going on a big corporation's dime. I don't have an expense account. I'm paying for the entire thing myself, and now they want 20 more dollars?

I haven't priced it, but I bet I could take the PDF to Kinkos and use a plotter for less...

Bad form Adobe, bad form. You want a million Flex developers, how about not milking us for every penny?

Here's a few suggestions as a previous MAX attender (actually last time I attended it was DevCon).

I don't need more backpacks. Especially useless messenger bags. I don't need the entire conference's PPTs printed in a huge ass book. I don't need pens. I don't need squishy stress squieezies in the shape of logos.

Take any one or two of these useless bits of Schwag and give the incredibly useful posters away. Hell charge 20 for the backpack, and give me the poster. Maybe Adobe marketing would be surprised which was more popular.