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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Mar 23, 2006 11:50AM

> Don't get me wrong. I think they should have gotten it right
> the first time.
> But since that's obviously not the case, we shouldn't expect
> someone to snap their fingers and it'll get fixed. Their job
> is to make money. If the diversion funds & manpower doesn't
> add to the bottom line, it is understandable that they'd be
> disinclined to be in a hurry for new features & bug fixes.

And not to veer this too far OT, but if one does get upset with software
comapanies having that attitude, the solution is to volunteer some
energy towards one of the open source alternatives.

-Darrel