Developer program too expensive - No demos (Score 1)

I am a programmer. Outside of work, it is mostly personal or Open Source (I have to work on Windoze at work). I think $99 is too much money. I wanted to download the SDK and give it a spin to see how hard it would be to port some apps. I'm not sure I will ever do any apps, I just want to evaluate. I think a thirty day trial or something would be appropriate for a new piece of hardware. Maybe they only want paid apps?