>3.  jim likes using bloatware, but is
too cheap to buy commercial-grade.

Once again BB substitutes cheap and vacuous insults for thoughtful and useful analysis.

It’s not that I “like” OO – its that it comes closest in what I have found for what PG volunteers can use to do WYSIWYG html editing – if they do not want to get too much into txt-mode html source code editing. Personally I just write html using a variety of regex text editors – but I would be happy to find something that is more convenient that simple regex – which works well-enough for what I need to do.

Re Bloatware: At today’s drive prices it costs literally 5 cents worth of disc storage to put OO on your system – so I don’t see where BB’s insults make any logical sense in that regard: The disc storage requirements of almost any tool today simply does not matter in practice nowadays.

Re: “Too cheap to buy commercial-grade” – Once again BB speaks of that which he knows not.  Once again BB substitutes cheap insults for any useful and thoughtful analysis.  The reality is I have several thousands of dollars of commercial grade software on my machine, and also have about a $1000 of various e-books devices to test my work on, and I am happy to spend the bucks WHEN commercial software offers compelling quality and value.  All too often however, I find that amateur hucksters are pretending to be “professionals” and want you to shell out good money for crappy alpha quality software which they claim will save the world but which in reality can’t actually fight its way out of a wet paper bag – and once you buy their alphaware then they think you owe it to them to do their software debugging for them when their software keeps crashing and they don’t even know how to debug it themselves.

I have no problem with people who want to make their living off of software, and who start by offering their product as freeware or shareware and then develop it over time into something truly worth offering on a “commercial” basis.  But, it is certainly true that I am too Scottish on my father’s side to throw away good money on carnival hucksters!