| In a message dated 8/13/2001 11:54:07 AM Central Daylight Time,
bob@RATTLESNAKE.COM writes: He has a pencil ... Cute analogy. Not a good one, but cute. A man has a bought a book it took its author 20 years to write. He wants to change a few things in it and pass it off as his own. He wants to run off copies and give to his friends or sell copies below the going price (he doesn't have to pay the author after all). He wants to tear out some pages then demand that the pubisher replace the defective copy. And so on. He is quite rightly a criminal in that case. If you don't want to use MS products, don't. But there is no stigma attached to using them (even studpidity is challengeable). And don't whine because occasionally something for MSDOS or Windows actually works better than the free-spirited stuff (Hell, even Krupp made some good things from time to time). On the other hand, realize that many people do use MS products -- for whatever reason -- and reach out to them when you have a good idea by striving to implement the idea for them as well as for the cult. |