UltraEdit for Linux: who wants a license discount?

[Dotan Cohen]

> 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.

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