>I'm willing to pay for software that does what I want it to do. When I'm desperate, I've been known to pay for software that simply *claimed* that it did what I wanted to do. [Can you say "burned?"] But the willingness of people to pay for something being the only determination of what goes into software is LUDICROUS! And it doesn't work anyway. People are willing to pay for Windows ... Would anyone care to raise his/her hand and say that willingness to pay for Windows makes it worth what they pay for it, or worth the space it takes? As for finding out what Arachne is capable of, I'm going to do a bit of healthy disagreeing here... > This looks like an argument for open-source software. >Right now Michael is walking a tightrope without a safety net! Any investors that can help him financially also can take Arachne Labs away from him ... I hope he has a VERY good lawyer experienced with keeping venture capitalist under control and denying them control of a company. My fingers are cross on this one ... and some of you might consider what the consequences *could* be. l.d. > Investors might take away Arachne Labs, but they can't take away open-source software. Good-bye Arachne, hello Mozilla? I downloaded Warpzilla milestone 16 yesterday predawn, haven't set it up yet. I could also subsequently switch to Linux Mozilla. Scrolling is clumsy in Arachne as the entire screen redraws just for one up-arrow or down-arrow keystroke. See what happens with Arachne 1.62 on http://ens.lycos.com and the environment news articles linked on that page. Arachne 1.61 scrolled smoothly on most of these news articles but never on the Ameriscan articles, file name ending in -09.html.
