UltraEdit for Linux: who wants a license discount?

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sunday 08 Nov 2009 13:00:18 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > And it is naturally on-topic here. I can also forward your message to
> > Hackers- IL / Perl-IL / etc. (separately of course) where there are other
> > programmers.
> 
> Sure, no problem. Nobody has asked for the license yet.
> 

Done. I hope someone will be interested in this.

> > Regarding text editors, I myself am pretty happy with gvim and vim (
> > http://www.vim.org/ ) as my text editors, but I'm also using kate and
> > other editors for editing mixed Hebrew/Latin text and naturally often use
> > the built- in text editors of applications (like KMail here or Firefox's
> > <textarea>'s edit box).
> 
> Hebrew works for you in Kate? Is that KDE 3 or 4? KDE 4 Kate is very
> broken for Hebrew. If you do reply to this, part, maybe it should be
> broken off into another thread.

KDE 3's Kate was horrible as far as Hebrew was concerned. I used kedit back 
then. KDE 4's Kate is not too bad in Hebrew, but still could use a lot of 
improvement. I hope to work on it some time when I'm in the mood, but I don't 
know how deep I'll need to delve. One bug that has bothered me in KMail is 
that long URLs get broken if they contain dashes. (That is tangential to 
Hebrew support in KMail or Kate.) It was reported, but eventually was marked 
as a Qt bug, and no one knows if it will get fixed or not and when. So 
sometimes fixing something in KDE 4 and its apps requires delving into many 
deeper layers.

I've been looking in the direction of other Bidi-supporting editors, such as 
gedit, geany, etc. but always found Kate to be the best for what I need to do. 
I also recently wrote XML-Grammar-Fiction (also implementing a proto-source 
text-based markup language) to facilitate working on an XHTML/DocBook/XML 
document using Kate and other Bidi-ish editors:

http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/XML-Grammar/Fiction/

> 
> > Yes. BTW, is there a shareware version of UltraEdit available for
> > download for a free-as-in-beer trial?
> 
> Going through thier website, it looks like the standard download gives
> you 30 days' trial:
> http://www.ultraedit.com/downloads/uex.html

OK, nice.

> 
> > If you're into selling or distributing software, you are
> > likely destined to not become very rich. So it's probably not so bad.
> 
> I recommend to those considering it to try illegal business practices
> such as bribery and strongholding to form a molopoly. From there, you
> can charge whatever you want so long as you can discourage
> interoperability and buyout competitors. Just an idea.
> 

:-)

That was a joke of course. But seriously now: I don't want to discourage 
anyone from trying to contribute to, originate or distribute the so-called 
"shrinkwrap" software (or any kind of binary media in general) - i.e: software 
that is used in the wild - commercial, proprietary, open-source, GNU, etc. 
I've tried it, and while it didn't make me rich, I can certainly recommend it 
as a very enlightening, and maturing experience that brought me a lot of 
happiness.

While it probably won't make you rich, it's still a good way to earn esteem, 
gain experience, and gain some indirect notoriety. I got quite a few job leads 
or even opportunities due to various material I published online. Paul Graham 
mentions here - http://www.paulgraham.com/hiring.html , that:

<<<<<<<<<<<
I asked managers at Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Cisco and Microsoft how they'd feel 
about two candidates, both 24, with equal ability, one who'd tried to start a 
startup that tanked, and another who'd spent the two years since college 
working as a developer at a big company. Every one responded that they'd 
prefer the guy who'd tried to start his own company. Zod Nazem, who's in 
charge of engineering at Yahoo, said:

    I actually put more value on the guy with the failed startup. And you can 
quote me! 
>>>>>>>>>>>

A piece of publicly-available software that you wrote is a good way to show 
off your skills, and give job recruiters some way to estimate your skills 
without having to fear some corporate NDA or whatever.

And it's not as if there are enough prospective people out there. I'm not sure 
I can name a single open-source project that would refuse help from any 
capable people (despite whatever recessions we may be in, at the moment).

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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