> Putting the forums in BCC is a good start, but what would work even better > is if you actually posted it separately. The way you posted it makes it > extremely difficult for people to answer you publicly. I suspect the only > reason this was posted at all was because one of the other admins manually > approved it (which I wouldn't, by the way, for the reason stated above). >
I see, thanks Shachar for the explanation. This is how I learn! > I'm not going to buy it as I > don't need it, in fact I didn't even test the betas due to university > time constraints! If anyone wants my discount, just ask. > > But that's just the point, isn't it? > I am not a coder, therefore I do not need a coder's text editor. But I figured that given the nature of this list, someone here might be interested. > Even on Windows, you rarely have to go with commercial solutions. There are > free (which are free) solutions that do an excellent job. On Linux the > market is even more saturated. > I would say that there are a few markets which are saturated for free (foss or money) solutions, yet there is room for a high quality commercial product. Office suits, for example (I would gladly pay for MS Office if it ran on Ubuntu and saved in compliant ODF, it really is a good program). Or even web browsers (I would pay for Opera if they still required it, it is that good). > As a point of proof - even the beta testers don't need the program. > This beta tester is not a coder! > In any case, now is a good time to show the commercial viability of > Linux and support UltraEdit. > > That sentence would have been appropriate had the people of the list decided > to use UE without paying. I'm sure you don't think we would, for the sake of > showing economic viability, buy products we don't intend to use, do you? > I certainly do not expect one to purchase software that he does not need. I asked under the assumption that someone here may be unsatisfied with VIM/Emacs/Eclipse. > This is not a cynical question. Can you provide us with anything UE does > that is not available in any number of free automatically installed editors, > most of which are the default text handlers anyway? I'm asking because the > question of economic viability stems from demand and supply, not from > spending money on ideologically buying something you don't need. > Start here: http://www.ultraedit.com/products/ultraedit/what_can_ultraedit_do_for_you.html > In other words, it's UE that need to supply the viability, not the > community. The community just needs to be willing to spend the money where > the product justifies it. > Agreed. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
