Hello,
I'm wondering if I'm the only one who noticed a (seemingly) new
"feature" in the latest BBEdit. I use BBEdit on my laptop and two
desktop machines at home. I bought a single user license. That's
because I am one person: the very definition of "single user."
However, I noticed that I am now getting dialog boxes coming up on my
copies of BBEdit if I have them running concurrently on my machines
at home. They say: "Multiple copies of BBEdit with this serial number
are in use on your network. Please ask your colleagues to quit their
copies or quit your copy of BBEdit."
If it could hear, I'd tell BBEdit that I have no "colleagues" using
it...it's just me!
This nag box comes up just about every time I do anything. It never
happened before yesterday. (My network configuration did change
recently, so perhaps that's part of it.)
First off, this is annoying because BBEdit is a rather expensive
program for a text editor. And after using it for YEARS with no
problem (and paying the multiple upgrade fees) on my several home
machines, this new license scheme seems to be implemented without
notice. I am a loyal, paying customer, yet Bare Bones is treating me
like a crook. It's enough to make me start looking into other
options. I'm simply not going to pay $600 for the privilege of using
BBEdit on my three personal machines. I'm sure I'm not the only home
user with more than one machine.
I sure hope they don't implement this scheme for Yojimbo, which I
also used and paid for, because the very cool synchronization feature
allows me to keep data synced between my two desktops and my laptop.
I'll admit, I didn't read the license agreement (who does?). I just
assumed "single user license" meant what it said: that BBEdit could
be used by a single user--and for years, until now, it did. I am a
single user. Q.E.D.
Has Bare Bones changed their policy? I can find no mention of it on
the website. Is there any hope of switching it back? If not, I guess
it's time to move to something Cocoa-based, like TextMate.
If Bare Bones is going to start doing this with Yojimbo, please let
me know so I don't waste my money on upgrade fees. I love Yojimbo and
would hate to be without it, but I will ditch it in a second if you
think you're going to get me to buy two additional licenses just for
my own personal use.
BBEdit's slogan is "It doesn't suck." I don't know if that's true any
longer.
Please reconsider, Bare Bones!!!
A soon-to-be-formerly-loyal customer.
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