Er, well, Adobe does that, Microsoft does that... A lot of software has such
licensing restrictions anymore. Keeps people from buying copy A and passing it
around the office. Not everyone is as honest as you. Anyway, you should be
pissed off at the people who cheat the system, not someone who's trying to make
a better system for his products.
-Brian
On Tue, 16 May 2006, Evan wrote:
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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