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BBEdit's Most Expensive Upgrade

Posted by timothy on from the who-says-they're-joking dept.

BBEdit users with a lot of money and fast reflexes can order something not available from most software companies: yroJJory writes "For the duration of the day, Bare Bones Software is offering BBEdit 7 for $250,000. The new pricing option includes: hand delivery of the product by a Bare Bones employee in a gorilla suit; a breaking-of-the-seal ceremony; Interpretive reading of the manual; and one year of feature request implementation service. And to think...I just paid for my license last week. Shucks."

19 comments

  1. Damn... by hitzroth · · Score: 1

    I can't do it. I don't have a TV and they require one. And all I have is scotch and vodka, no microbrews.

    And I so wanted to do this. I had the certified cheque and everything.

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    --VonNeumann
  2. Okay... by C0LDFusion · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...for that much money, I'll dance the macarena in a monkey suit and install BBEdit on every computer in the state of Idaho while doing so.

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    1. Re:Okay... by isorox · · Score: 1

      That would robably work out at less then $1 per computer. Not that great a deal.

    2. Re:Okay... by Dahan · · Score: 4, Funny

      BBEdit is a Mac program... there are only 3 Macs in the state of Idaho, so the per-computer rate would actually be quite good.

    3. Re:Okay... by wadetemp · · Score: 4, Funny

      So what you're saying is I have all the Macs in Idaho? That's what I always though.

  3. Did I mention... by hitzroth · · Score: 0

    that I hate hate hate hate April Fools' Day?

    I mean, why bother? All anyone ever does is turn the small slice of life they occupy into a cheap reincarination of an Onion story -- which is no particular accomplishment as the Onion lacks enough substance to make it more than the pretender to intellectual humor that it is.

    And, since all the pathetic wannabe psychologists will ask: no, I didn't get hit particularly hard this year. And no, I don't resent that I didn't get pranks pulled on me.

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    In mathematics, one does not understand things, one merely gets used to them.
    --VonNeumann
    1. Re:Did I mention... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Sorry I don't have mod points today. You're certainly on the money. The uninspired "April Fools" jokes, from the $65,000 jobs as a freshmeat editor to this crap at bbedit just aren't funny, and they're a waste of my time when they go up on these sites that I use to get work done (wrt the former) or get news (like this one).

      Now if BBEdit would just say that their removal of a free OS X version of BBEdit Lite was an April Fool's joke, I'd be interested.

  4. Isn't April 2 in the US yet? by Kris_J · · Score: 1, Redundant

    It's lunch time April 2 where I'm at and this unfunny stuff is getting old.

    1. Re:Isn't April 2 in the US yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Boo hoo. Stop reading Slashdot then.

    2. Re:Isn't April 2 in the US yet? by coolMikeUSC · · Score: 1

      well Kris you have to give BareBones some credit, they even made an 'official' press release!

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  5. Could be worthwhile by isorox · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are an eccentric billionaire, buy a copy for the folks at the South Pole, where the suns just set for the next 6 months. Of course it's pretty impossible to get there for the next 6 months too, although for enough (millions) I'm sure you could.

  6. I'd be careful by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's all fun and games until Jobs decides to drop a quarter mil.

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    1. Re:I'd be careful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      http://shadow.autono.net/sin001/clark.htm

  7. History of Press Releases on April 1 from BB by yroJJory · · Score: 1

    Bare Bones has been doing this for years, which is why I knew to look in the first place.

    Last year, they announced the Personal Analog Device (PAD). 2001, I can't recall and it isn't online anymore. In 2000, BB stated that they'd bought Fenway Park. Lime iMacs run BBEdit faster, according to the 1999 Press Release! 1998 saw the announcement of BB's first hardware, the Text Accelerator Component Kit (TACK) Board for PCI.

    I've got a lot of respect for a company with a history for joking around.

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    Jory
    1. Re:History of Press Releases on April 1 from BB by 11223 · · Score: 1

      Yeah, and last year they announced they were going to be charging $180 for a text editor.

      Whoops. I mean...

  8. If this was '99 by Simon+Spero · · Score: 1

    someone would have bought it by now.