The Regulator is *free* and as such is not trying to be
any competition. In fact, you can download the source
code for it and create your own
"competition".
If the only reason regexbuddy is not available for
download is because it has 3-4
"competitors" (actually only one of
them costs anything, the market is wide open), what
would all the zillion other *downloadable* products out
there that do have competition say? wouldn't it be
easier for potential customers to buy something they
have tried first? I'd say that's a turnoff rather than a
turn on.
And, what ever prevents a competitior from shelling out
30$ and then "gaining" competitive
advantage?
"I just feel that people who produce competing
products (i.e., Roy) shouldn't be complaining about the
lack of ability to do competetive analysis (and reverse
engineer). "
Gee, thanks for that vote of confidence. That totally
makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
I guess the fact that I've written in my blog about
other "competitors" to Regulator, both
free and non free means nothing. I guess the fact that I
keep saying that Expresso was my main inspiration to
begin writing it was a crock.
I was actually wanting to try regexbuddy because I heard
good things about it. If I was impressed with it I would
probably have made a public blog about it letting people
know how cool it really is. Now, teall me - what do you
think the public impact on sames for RegexBuddy would be
if a "competitor* came out saying that they
like the non-free product? Do you think that would help
or hurt sales?
You might want to stop and think before you write such
mean things. Especially if they are wrong.
> You might want to stop and think before you
write such mean things. Especially if they are wrong.
I agree, that was unnecessary. Roy's tool is free. What
does he have to gain?
First, since it's brought up, I find The Regulator
really buggy. I'm surprised this never comes up. It
crashes/overwrites saves on my system at work, a buddy's
system, and my laptop at home. Does no one else have
these problems?
I mean, don't get me wrong, I appreciate the effort, and
some things about it are really great, but the saving
and crashing issues mean that I can't use it for real
work. So I use Expresso instead.
It's not like I could do any better, and I'm sure
they're easy fixes, or maybe something wrong with my
configuration, so again, I don't want to sound like I'm
belittling the effort and generousity involved in The
Regulator.
Anyways, yeah, buy first sucks. I'm kinda surprised at
the feature mentioned above though. Malformed regexs can
lockup an AppDomain, so my initial reaction is one of
doubt that this feature could actually be useful for
more than the most trivial of expressions.
As long as it looks nice, is stable, and is helpful with
the, uhm help, then I might give it a shot though.