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> Hey, can you help me cheat some programmers out of their wages?  We all
> know they get paid too much and should be flipping burgers instead.


1. That was uncalled for. If a programmer chooses to make something he or
she wrote for internal use available on an open-source, freeware, or
shareware basis, then that is his or her own business. Does the fact that
he or she has chosen NOT to hide the source for such an opus, and/or has
chosen NOT to charge for it, devalue the hours he or she put into it?

2. If a commercial product is so poorly engineered that a shareware,
freeware, or open-source alternative is as good or better, then maybe the
programmers who wrote the thing ARE paid too much, and SHOULD be flipping
burgers instead. Certain people who live and/or work in Redmond come to
mind. Also kind of reminds me of a fellow who was engaged, many years ago,
to perform the organ obbligato in the Saint-Saens Third Symphony, with the
Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, who was so awful that he ought to have stuck
with playing a Hammond for the rollerskaters in some rollatorium. Or the
occasional surgeon who would be better off cutting up dead livestock than
live sentient beings.

--
JHHL

P.S.: If all you need is a menuing system for a terminal-based
environment, and QuestView(tm) is installed on your AS/400, look no
further: you've already got your menuing system!



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