From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2004-07-10T02:52:02+09:00
Subject: RIDE vs FreeRIDE [was PickAxe 2 licensing]

Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
>
> Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com> writes:
>
> > Folks:
> >
> > I've been thinking long and hard about the licensing of the new version
> > of the PickAxe.
[snip]
> It's annoying to see that hard work (and this is what it takes to
> write a book) is not honored....
>
> However I feel not guilty because I bought that book. It was my
> "step-into" ruby.
>
> I struggled more then once with RIDE which is one of the most unusable
> things I happened to use, but just checked out ArachnoRuby
> later and guess what happens Arachno works, but on recommodations Ride
> is mentioned over and over again.

I'm not familiar with RIDE, but I assume you are *not* referring to FreeRIDE
(if I'm wrong please let me know what the problem was).

Curt
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