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Originally Posted by atom0s
Don't think a group-based purchase has ever happened. Just something that is suggested every few months.
Like @Chuck954 said though, the IDA team has been extremely anal lately with licensing to personal developers or small teams. Best bet would be to try and use a reseller but the amount of those that are still around is fairly low too. (Along with those with fair pricing and are actually legit.) You can see some of the lead devs previous Tweets over the last ~2 years and see how he's been towards others. Especially since Ghidra was announced and then released.
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It has happened, I know of one off the top of my head that I 'heard from a friend of a friend', so nobody PM me asking for a seat...
Chinese group, has been 'group buying' and renewing for a while now. I don't know if its from a re-seller in China or HexRays directly, but if it works, who really cares? Buy-in was 7000 CNY initially, for all platforms and plugins, but its basically been the same group of guys since it started.
However, in general, I'm inclined to agree. I doubt anything that is organized with the expectation of "let's pool small amounts of money and just pay for a license" will be very successful, given the actual cost involved.
I'm very interested to see how Hex-Rays responds to Ghidra when it eventually get's a debugger. Price cuts maybe? Not being so anal about your clients? The NSA has certainly lit a fire under Ilfak's ass lol...