One other interesting thought: When FS introduced this marker technology and WE customers asked why WE didn't have it, one of the comments made was its unreliability for reasons you have explained. Granted, those comments were made, to some degree as puffery designed to downplay a marketing advantage JFW had at that time and place. GWmicro, of course, understood the value of the concept else they would not have attempted to introduce it in 7.0.
What's sad in all this, and I feel Doug's pain in his blog entry, is that a software developer must have some legal training (or have his work reviewed by someone) in order to protect himself. By nature and inclination, it is obvious why software developers rather not have to take this step. Moreover, if they routinely had to do this, they would worry if their intellectual property could end up compromised by an attorney who was less than scrupulous himself. Perhaps things aren't as bad in your homeland of New Zealand, but here stateside, I see the legal profession dominating the business world to an inordinate degree. If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, and can be searched through and sorted using the search form at the bottom of the page. If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include leave gw-info in the body of the message.
