On May 4, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Bosch wrote:
Tom Rymes wrote:
On May 3, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Bosch wrote:
Mats Karlsson wrote:
Take a look here:
http://www.voip.com.sg/voip_products/
voip_ip_phone_provisioning_tool.html
Ugh. This is a Win32 app, isn't it?
Wow,
The guy makes a useful application and provides it to the
community for
free and you have the cojones to bitch and moan b/c it's a windows
app?
Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!
[snip]
B. It's not a gift horse for me, because it's totally use*less* to me.
[snip]
It *is* a gift horse; he gave it to you, after all. The expression
"To look a gift horse in the mouth" implies that someone gave you a
horse and you looked into its mouth to see how old it is and whether
it is of value to *you*. A modern comparison might be pulling up
froogle to see how much a gift cost as someone gives it to you.
In other words, taking a gift from someone and questioning its value
to you in front of that person's face is rude, inconsiderate, and bad
form. I would understand a post along the lines of: "Wow, that looks
like a great program from the description, but it's a windows only
app, and I don't run Windows. Does anyone know of something similar
for Linux?"
I dunno, I guess I'm not your mother, but then again, it seemed
pretty rude considering the guy offered the program for free and you
were criticizing the fact that he didn't develop a free linux app for
you, too.
Tom
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