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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -0500, Shea Tisdale wrote:
> Steven Champeon wrote
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 11:08 AM
> > To: InterNetWorkers
> > Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Secure software the MS way
> > 
> > on Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:06:29AM -0500, David Minton wrote:
> > > At least MS was honest about it. They don't want their customers to
> > stick to
> > > current (paid for software), when they can upgrade (and pay more) to get
> > > around the defects.
> > 
> > s/get around the/get a new crop of/
> 
> %s/upgrade/extort customers to pay for fixes that should be free/g

Don't get me wrong - I think you should pay for good software. What irks
me is when you upgrade and they may have fixed some of the old bugs, but
have at the same time introduced more new ones, because of some misguided
sense that buggy new features matter more than stability. 

Software has bugs, I know. It's a law. But bugs can be fixed, if the
will is there, and I'd actually gladly pay for a bugfixed version of a
piece of software given the alternative between a bugfix stable version
and a new, buggy version with more unnecessary and unwanted features.

But then, I'm still annoyed by the fact that all software nowadays seems
to need to be "Web-ready", which usually means "dumbed down so that
anything that looks like an email address or URL must be clickable and
launch a Web browser". I wish I could go back to a version of Excel
where you could actually cut and paste URLs and email addresses without
launching a mail app. I use mutt on a different server for email, and
hate watching a local mail app launch while I'm trying to cut and paste
an email addy out of Excel. So pointless. And I've found no way of
disabling it; even asked Microsoft. Apparently it never occured to them
that you might want to cut and paste. Argh.

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