BBEdit's Most Expensive Upgrade

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."

Damn...

[hitzroth]

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.

Did I mention...

[hitzroth]

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.

Okay...

[C0LDFusion]

...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.

Re:Okay...

[isorox]

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

Re:Okay...

[Dahan]

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.

Re:Okay...

[wadetemp]

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

Isn't April 2 in the US yet?

[Kris_J]

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

Re:Isn't April 2 in the US yet?

[Anonymous Coward]

Boo hoo. Stop reading Slashdot then.

Re:Isn't April 2 in the US yet?

[coolMikeUSC]

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

History of Press Releases on April 1 from BB

[yroJJory]

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). [barebones.com] 2001, I can't recall and it isn't online anymore. In 2000, BB stated that they'd bought Fenway Park. [barebones.com] Lime iMacs run BBEdit faster [barebones.com], according to the 1999 Press Release! 1998 saw the announcement [barebones.com] 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.

Re:History of Press Releases on April 1 from BB

[11223]

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

Whoops. I mean...

Could be worthwhile

[isorox]

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.

I'd be careful

[0x0d0a]

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

If this was '99

[Simon Spero]

someone would have bought it by now.