From: john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: POLL: Would you use Ada more if...
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 13:19:32 GMT
Date: 2002-08-16T13:19:32+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d5cfb75.17189236@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnalps90.50s.randhol+news@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 12:33:35 +0000 (UTC), Preben Randhol
<randhol+news@pvv.org> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:25:20 GMT, John McCabe wrote:
>> Just for the record, I agree. For many purposes is essential to have
>> something tangible such as a CD and installation manual.
>
>If you buy M$ Office or some other program you don't have any warrenties
>nor can you call M$ and complain if something doesn't work. It puzzels
>me why accountants/lawyer still think that.
I'm not questioning the warranties, but many accountants / lawyers
just don't understand computers that well and that software is really
intangible - having a CD/box/manual makes it less intangible in their
eyes and easier to cope with. For example they can assign it an asset
number and put a nice sticker on it so that they can manage
depreciation etc.
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Thread overview: 103+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-16 8:46 POLL: Would you use Ada more if Juha Valimaki
2002-08-16 11:25 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 11:11 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 11:54 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 12:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:17 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:23 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:32 ` John McCabe
2002-08-26 18:00 ` Robert A Duff
2002-08-27 8:28 ` John McCabe
2002-08-27 22:56 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-27 18:23 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-27 19:24 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-28 14:53 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-28 17:07 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-28 17:38 ` Darren New
2002-08-28 18:29 ` Jim Rogers
2002-08-29 0:40 ` Jerry Petrey
2002-08-28 1:41 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-28 5:52 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 19:49 ` tmoran
2002-08-28 15:05 ` Anatoly Chernyshev
2002-08-28 20:24 ` Dmitry A.Kazakov
2002-08-17 4:09 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-17 10:12 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 10:57 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-17 18:00 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 19:45 ` Caffeine Junky
2002-08-18 3:41 ` AG
2002-08-17 20:59 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-17 21:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-18 8:40 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-19 0:50 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 13:33 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 13:41 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:51 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 15:03 ` Darren New
2002-08-16 15:24 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 16:26 ` Robert C. Leif
2002-09-01 22:33 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-08-16 15:31 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 16:17 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 16:51 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 18:03 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-16 18:45 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-08-16 23:11 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-16 20:46 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-17 6:22 ` Simon Wright
2002-08-17 15:53 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 16:09 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 17:00 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 21:05 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-19 8:28 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 17:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 16:28 ` Eric Merritt
2002-08-19 8:30 ` John McCabe
2002-08-19 14:03 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 18:27 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-16 21:19 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-16 23:44 ` Chad R. Meiners
2002-08-17 7:49 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 10:14 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 12:43 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-17 14:02 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-17 14:03 ` chris.danx
2002-08-17 19:04 ` Point of Information was " Robert C. Leif
2002-08-20 0:17 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-17 20:20 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-17 10:11 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-18 2:05 ` Keith Thompson
2002-08-19 8:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-20 15:48 ` pontius
2002-08-16 16:58 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 16:24 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-16 17:38 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-08-16 21:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-17 4:04 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-08-16 11:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 12:33 ` Preben Randhol
2002-08-16 13:19 ` John McCabe [this message]
2002-08-16 16:29 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-18 1:52 ` AG
2002-08-19 2:34 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2002-08-16 18:54 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-08-18 22:44 ` David Thompson
2002-08-17 10:16 ` Robert Dewar
2002-08-16 11:25 ` John McCabe
2002-08-16 13:38 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2002-09-01 21:40 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-08-16 15:27 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-09-01 21:42 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-09-01 21:36 ` henderson was no auteur
2002-09-02 23:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-09-03 2:33 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2002-09-03 7:21 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-08-16 14:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-19 17:10 ` Richard Riehle
2002-08-19 17:50 ` Marin D. Condic
2002-08-19 20:53 ` Juha Valimaki
2002-08-20 8:29 ` John McCabe
2002-08-20 16:04 ` Kevin Cline
2002-08-17 14:21 ` POLL: " chris.danx
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2002-08-28 17:43 Anatoly Chernyshev
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