Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Intrinsic vs. Market Value
Author: Mark A. Hershberger Posted: 8/26/2000; 12:52:04 PM Topic: Next survey: Are you an open source developer? Msg #: 20339 (In response to 20333) Prev/Next: 20338 / 20340
BBEdit is not a text editor.From the website:
BBEdit is designed for the editing, searching, transformation, and manipulation of text.http://www.bbedit.com/products/bbedit/bbedit.html
Yes, it is also a fine editor for HTML, but so is Emacs. I simply don't see how you can continue to maintain that they don't compete. Obviously, BBEdit is a commercially availible tool with a feature set similar to a GPLed tool. There is a Mac port of Emacs, so this isn't an issue of them not competing.
The same is true of UltraEdit; it's a specialized editor and not a conventional text editor.
Do you check your facts?
Reading the features page for UltraEdit, I see:
Syntax highlighting - configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex. Multiple wordfiles available for downloadSeems to me that it is a general purpose editor.
Sorry, but the market for ordinary text editors is dead, dead, dead.
Can you still support this statement? Do you have the financials for the companies involved?
Brett, GCC didn't kill the market for compilers any more than Emacs killed the market for text editors. Some people may have thrown their hands up in consternation, but others obviously chose to continue their work.
Mark.
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