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.