Re: info center search. III.

["Brad Jensen" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- > I don't have the luxury of IE, because, I do
not want to have a
> dedicated Windows system only used for the purpose of Web Browsing. I
> need to use alternative browsers, and I need web developers to support
> those browsers.
>
> Syd Nicholson

And to some degree, we web developers wil cater to your idiosyncracies. It
would be nice
if your favorite browsers would support what Microsoft supports (jscript
verion, not vbscript)
otherwise it is kind of like having a lamp with a plug that doesn't fit the
common electric socket,
and expectoing all homes to be wired with two or five different kinds of
electric sockets.

As a programmer who works for a living, I find the anticommercial snobbism
of the open source folks
obnoxious. Software should be free. So should electricity, medical care,
water, housing, and pizza. And whatever
it is that YOU do.

Someone is always paying for software development. I get the impression that
much of the open source
development efforst is done by people at non-profits, which in the USA get
an effective tax subsidy
by their tax exempt status.

Which means I am subsidizing it, and then they get to tell me how I can use
it.

The people in the open source movements who put restrictions on the use of
their software
are hyopcrites. They are getting paid for their software - with their
ego-control of others.

There's nothing holy or noble about getting a free ride from the rest of us.
It may be clever,
but it is not socially responsible or constructive.

Brad Jensen