Will SQL Developer always be free? Evidently Data Modeling extension won't.

After learning the Data Modeling extension to SQL Developer was actually a for-pay product (only the Early Adopter release is free, evidently), I now wonder:
Will SQL Developer always be free, or is there a chance it will be converted into a for-pay product? I don't want to invest any more time learning the tool if there will be future license fees to pay.
I was sad to learn Data Modeling won't be free. Not knowing how much it might cost, I don't want to invest any time at all playing with it.
Thanks.
Dana

Thanks K. Hope to learn more about the Data Modeling extension pricing--not that I'll be able to afford it. Too bad--I see Oracle going in a great direction with SQL Developer being free. It's a shame Data Modeling won't be. Right now, I am stuck using Enterprise Architect--and that's very limited for database design. Evidently it can be modified to do a lot more, but I don't have the skills or time to turn it into something it should do out of the box.
What other free data modeling tools are out there? I liked Druid III, but that doesn't seem to be under active development. There's an Open Source tool called Power Architect, but it was rather buggy the last time I evaluted it:
http://www.sqlpower.ca/page/architect
Maybe it has improved since then (about a year ago).

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