----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dmitri Girski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 1:28 PM
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Preventing cut&paste in Flex3 application


> --- In [email protected], "Paul Andrews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Good software is all about enabling people not disabling them.
>
> This is just a meaningless statement.

I think it's more of a guiding principle..

>You can't enable everything for
> everyone in any possible way.

That wasn't my suggestion.

> First, good software does whatever it is supposed to do.

.. and more.

> Then comes
> the rest (including copy-paste).

Even the OP agrees it's not a good idea to restrict copy-paste.

Just to clarify Dmitri, my point was that the focus of software should be to 
enable people to do whatever they wish and not hamper them in that  pursuit 
without very good reason.

Paul

> Cheers,
> Dmitri. 

Reply via email to