Thanks to igorsk for informing me that DataRescue has made an updated version of IDA Pro available as freeware. No longer must we suffer the quirks of the old freeware version 4.3– we get to learn a whole new set of idiosyncrasies with 4.9.

The sales folks at DataRescue told me that this freeware release was in the works– to pacify me when they refused to sell me a license for the full version of IDA Pro. Interesting business model.