Free HTML editor

[Steve]

Arachnophilia is a free HTML editor that has received good reviews - 
clean, simple, and doesn't butcher code like some other products.   
It's published as Careware, a concept that's probably familiar to 
some of you.  Available at:  www.arachnoid.com

Here's an explanation of Careware from the program's author, Paul 
Lutus -


Economic principles lie behind many more human activities than most
of us realize. We are almost constantly exchanging something for
something else. Many economic transactions don't involve money. In
traditional societies, and sometimes even this one, people trade
using favors, influence, even pure ideas, instead of money. 

Sometimes money is not the best way to convey value. And sometimes
money is so completely inappropriate that it destroys the transaction
. CareWare is one of those transactions. 

CareWare doesn't involve money, but it is a transaction nevertheless.
Something is delivered, something is received. Adam Smith's invisible
economic hand moves through the CareWare economy just like everywhere
else. I can't ask for something more than I am giving, but I can ask
for an appropriate exchange. 

In CareWare, the "buyer" gets something of value in exchange for
something the "seller" wants. And what does the seller want? The
general answer is "Anything except money," but I prefer the really
remarkable transactions, which you recognize instinctively when you
see them. 

Here is an example -- here is a hypothetical transaction between
myself and you. I have a program called "Arachnophilia" which is a
rather nice Web page editor and workshop, but I don't want your money
in exchange, I want something else. So I say "This is what I am
offering, and here is what I want in return." Simple, right? I have
been doing this for a little while now, and the responses have been
very interesting. Many people think I have religious beliefs -- I
don't, at least not religious beliefs recognizable by a person of
normal intellectual gifts. Others try to push the transaction in a
more traditional direction for one reason or another -- I recently
received this message: Careware, eh? A small price to pay for such a
great software package. My pen quivers over my checkbook in case you
change your mind. 

This response could arise from any number of causes, and bartering
about the medium as well as the size of the payment is a normal part
of economic transactions, so maybe I am picking on this particular
correspondent a little. But the funny part is CareWare is by no means
a small price to pay . 

For example, here is a payment I will accept for a copy of
Arachnophilia -- 

To own Arachnophilia, I ask that you stop whining about how hard your
life is, at least for a while. When Americans whine, nearly everybody
else in the world laughs. We have so much, and yet we manage to: 

Overlook great examples of beauty around us, Miss our most important
opportunities, Manage to make ourselves miserable by expecting
something even better to come along. 

Every time we whine about how tough we have it, apart from the fact
that we look ridiculous, we make it harder for people around us to
appreciate how much we have. We encourage people to overlook the
things we do have, the gifts of man and nature. We provide a context
to dismiss everything as not good enough, to be miserable in the
midst of plenty. 

Don't get the wrong impression -- many things are unjust, things that
should be struggled against until they are made right. My complaint
is with people who can't find even one thing to take joy in, to
appreciate. These people not only make themselves miserable, but they
infect others with the attitude that the world should right itself,
by itself, before they will take simple pleasure in anything. 

So here is my deal: stop whining for an hour, a day, a week, your
choice, and you will have earned your copy of Arachnophilia. Say
encouraging words to young people, make them feel welcome on the
planet Earth (many do not). Show by example that we don't need all we
have in order to be happy and productive. 

Paul Lutus, Port Hadlock, Washington 




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