Putting my (lack of) money where my mouth is

Getting settled in to the new job, and just learned that I've got a little money for new software. Key word being "little." As a result, it looks like I won't be able to have my old stand-by BBEdit handy due to other priorities. So...I'm giving something called JEdit a try. Hopefully it'll serve the purpose.

Since I frequently rant about the waste of pissing money away to commercial companies when there are perfectly acceptable alternatives out there, I guess it's about time that I did something like this. Not that I'm equating the good folks at Bare Bones with Microsoft, mind you. It's just that for cash-strapped operations it makes sense to pursue alternatives whenever possible.