Hello, Vili!
On Sunday, 10 October 2004, you wrote:
KV> ...I write the financial part: companies MUST KV> buy professional version. Private persons can KV> choose.
Thank you for the information, Vili! Actually, it poses an ethical dilemma for me, and your point is very relevant.
I started doing consulting back in 1996, creating Web sites for nonprofit and educational organizations: I also did some writing, editing, and desktop publishing, as well as a couple of short-term technical-writing contract jobs, documenting computer software. E-mail was critical in communicating with clients, although I was using Pine with UNIX for most of that time and was myself essentially nonprofit. ;-)
The Web sites that I created were content-based and I hand-coded them in HTML with BBEdit, a text editor for the Macintosh. The nature of the Web changed and I got behind on my Web skills (although I did get to teach a Web workshop to teachers in Ukraine in 2000, which was a wonderful experience, and my first time to use The Bat!).
Because of economic changes here in America, my nonprofit clients have not been able to offer me any projects for some time (although I am always open to volunteer work), and technical-writing opportunities in this region of the United States are incredibly rare right now. (I lost a full-time, salaried job because of outsourcing.)
I apologize for giving my life's story, Vili, but as many
wise people have noted, the only constant in life is change
("mutability," as P.B. Shelley puts it in one poem).Although I correspond with several successful shareware developers/sellers in Russia and Ukraine who use the personal edition of The Bat!, it would be unethical (and illegal) of me to register the personal version and to continue using it if I actually started to earn any money again with my consulting (although I am focused on finding a salaried job).
Your point is a major one, Vili, and I should register the professional version. The decision would be the right ethical one to make now (aside from the financial problem), and the legal one, in the future, should my situation change for the better.
Thank you, Vili!
Cordially,
David -- http://ddickerson.igc.org/
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