I see your point but I can't agree with it, at any point. These responses are not made with rancour but just to tackle them dispassionately.
>Why hide it in the license agreement, which nobody sees until after the >purchase, the License seems to be in the manual, and IIRC the manual is in the demo download so I'm afraid this doesn't stand up very well to scrutiny. Where do you suggest they 'hide it'? (I find this phrasing pretty inflammatory, it's hardly neutral.) Where would you *expect* to find such information? So you can download the demo, read the manual, find the Licence Agreement. I can't think of a simpler way. If you want it in big yellow letters all over the download page, then I don't think you are being realistic. In a world where it is *standard* for expensive (three-figure) software to have limitations and enforcement of those limitations, it doesn't seem tenable to argue that it was a shock. If they were the first to do it, then yes. But I've seen these things for about a decade, not just a few years or months. Have you really not seen them yet elsewhere? And why should this rather than anything else get special attention, in the user's face? Personally if some dialog popped up clarifying this fairly predictable bit of information while I was purchasing, I would find it irritating. >and which nobody except for a handful of pedants on this list >ever reads anyway? They can't make us read it but is that their problem? Should every single important item be put in a dialog box or similar? can you imagine how maddening that would be, to get a string of what various different people thought was important? YOU want this piece of information to be prominent but I might want something completely different. I have no idea how many BBEdit licences are out there but if one in ten people got their particular thing highlighted, it would be as highlighed as, uh, an entry in the Licence agreement. Bottom line is, you have had the licence agreement all this time. If you didn't read it, it's not their fault. So I find this complaint untenable too. You've asked them to change their policy: they seem to have declined or at least not addressed it. The majority of the 'fanboys' here seem to think that BB have made a reasonable decision (you tried to obscure that by calling us 'fanboys' just because we think that their position is reasonable, a nice rhetorical trope that seems to have annoyed several people because it distracts from the fact that they have actually come to their own conclusion. You will find some of those adoring fans pushing rather hard for some features in Yojimbo on that list, btw). >If Microsoft pulled this kind of bait-and-switch, I >guarantee this group wouldn't be the "amen chorus" it has been today. oh don't be silly. If BB implemented a strict one-machine policy, there would be an outcry. Fact is, most people here think that two is fair enough, just as most people accept the sense behind the speeding limit even if they *know* they are safe driving at 180 mph (as most drivers seem to...). Large-scale rules always create anomalies. You're not really respecting that most people here have thought about it and come to their own conclusion, you have derided them. Maybe it's actually that BB thought hard about it, implemented a sensible decision that suited most people and you're left out in the cold? If it went to three, someone would come along with a fourth machine It's like cut-off dates for free upgrades: someone always bought it at 1155 pm on the last day that didn't qualify. Given that they offer a free, rather powerful alternative for many functions of BBEdit in Textwrangler, or an osascript or similar can quit BBEdit on one of your other machines, this seems a million miles away from the kinds of things MS do (force you to only have one copy running on the LAN). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Have a feature request? Not sure the software's working correctly? If so, please send mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not to the list. List FAQ: <http://www.barebones.com/support/lists/bbedit_talk.shtml> List archives: <http://www.listsearch.com/BBEditTalk.lasso> To unsubscribe, send mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
