Poll: Would you pay for a general-purpose programming language?

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I guess when you say "language" you actually mean "implementation"? Is it even possible to license a language specification itself? (And why would anyone pay for this?)
I mean the language together with implementation.
Ok, so can anybody explain why programming languages are supposed to be free?