On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:50:08 -0000, you wrote:

>As the winter nights progress I am thinking of investing in a Web Editor.
>The two that have attracted my attention are Hotmetal Pro 5.0 and Adobe
>Pagemill 3.0.  Frontpage seems to be getting quite expensive and if I can
>help to break their monopoly without hurting myself then I would like to do
>my bit.
>
>If you were buying an editor again which one would you pick?

Hold steady, Douglas, there are many very acceptable
shareware/freeware/careware web editors.

I'm using Arachnophilia (http://www.arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/) at
the moment which is nice-ish. It's careware! See the concept creators
explanation of careware. [1].

Mike
-- 
Mike Carey, GP Systems Marketing Manager
Compudata Research Ltd

[1] But you are not off the hook yet. The "Payment" for a CareWare
program is not monetary. You have to make a different kind of payment
altogether. Let me explain.

 Most Americans are totally dissatisfied with everything. It is too
hot, too cold, too wet, too dry. If we have a free day, we are unhappy
because we don't have two free days. And just about the time we figure
out that we are supposed to appreciate the world as it is, we fall
over and die.
    
So here's your payment for Arachnophilia:
   
Imagine you have only two hours to live:



·	Is there something important you have to say to someone,
something you might regret not having said? If you were to die, would
that person always wonder what you really thought or felt?
·	Is there a pretty spot you have always wanted to visit, sit
under a tree, whatever?
·	Have you ever experienced the shock of noticing how beautiful
ordinary things are, once it dawns on you that you might not be around
very long?

If you are an old person (like me):


·	Do you speak to young people in a way that they will be
encouraged to grow up and expect to be happy and productive?
·	When you correct a young person, do you ask yourself  "Is this
mostly for my benefit, or mostly for his?"

If you are a young person:

·	Do you try to be patient with old people, even though most of
us are complete morons?
·	Do you try to live in the world as though you belonged here,
as though what you do matters to everyone, to the world itself, to
you?
·	Do you appreciate the small, free beauties of life, and not
expect to buy anything very important?

Look at this list. If you already belong to this list, if this list
already reflects your behavior and values, then you already own your
copy of Arachnophilia. In a sense, you owned it before it was written.

If you don't feel a kinship with the statements in the list, then
please do one or more of the things listed there. Maybe change how you
talk to a young person, or someone whose life would be improved if you
related to him or her differently. Or just allow a sense of wonder to
re-enter your life, a sense that nothing is deserved and everything
contains hidden beauty. And that sometimes beauty is not so much
hidden as unobserved.

I would like it if you lived your entire life as though each day was
your last, as though every small action mattered, in the way that it
does when you've run out of time. But I am a realist -- if you do that
for just one day, one day of saying the important things, of
performing the kindnesses that naturally occur to us when each day
might be our last, then you will have paid me for Arachnophilia.

I don't ask this because there is some definition of good behavior,
some correct religious or philosophical viewpoint. I ask it precisely
because there isn't such a viewpoint. We are all free agents, we get
to choose. In fact, we must choose -- it's dangerous to let others
choose for us. And no one gets to tell anyone else how to behave --
unless, of course, one is "selling" software using the CareWare
system.

Paul Lutus, Ashland, Oregon


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