On 16 May 2006, at 12:56 , Evan wrote:
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."
This only comes up if there are three different machines all running
BBEdit. And it's been there for a while (that is, it's not new).
I don't mind it at all, except...
What happens to me is I have MY machine taht I use and BBedit is
always open. Sometimes I use the iMac and I might use BBEdit, then
someone else will login, so my account, and my BBEdit, is not 'on
screen'.
Then I go to use the laptop and I get the dialog. My choices are
kick someone off the iMac so I can quit BBedit via a not-so-quick FUS
dance, or ssh in and kill it from the command line and hope there
wasn't anything that needed saving.
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.)
It should only come up if three copies are running on your LAN at the
same time.
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.
Hey, it's pretty cool they let you run it on TWO machines.
--
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good
novel, must be intolerably stupid".
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