On 16.5.2006, space aliens observed Ken Prager saying:
>Evan: you didn't read the license--you have nothing to complain about.
But Rich himself said that the license allowed multiple instances as
long as only one of them is "in use":
The spirit and letter of the license are such that you may install
BBEdit on as many machines as you like, as long as only one copy is
in use at any given time.
Note that he said "in use," not "running". Clearly, if you're only one
person, you can't possibly use more than one instance of BBEdit at any
given time.
As I keep most "often used" applications running at all times (and this
includes BBEdit), I find these network based copy protection schemes
highly annoying, and I suspect that most of those who actually *do*
pirate software will simply get a serial number from the Internet to get
around the problem. The only ones being inconvenienced here are the
honest customers.
I'm kind of surprised that Bare Bones Software would do something
annoying like this.
lucas
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