You ask for no flaming and then you write the following...!
> 3) If a bug or problem cannot be satisfactorily answered by anyone
> on the list, then contact the *author of the program*, not Chris
> Wiles, not Active, and not Vapor.
Sorry - we bought the program from Active Technologies entering into a
legally binding contract in which they legally had to provide the fix.
Active Technologies did not. NB: It is up to Active Technologies who
they subcontract work to (eg: vapor or Olli), but at the end of the
day Active did, and still do, have the legal responsibility for NC2
and NC3 (unless you buy NC3 from Eyetech then it is they who have the
responsibility).
So *ahem* please revise this code.
> After all, who fixes the bugs in the
> end? Olli got his Y2K bugfix for NC2 versions of Microdot within a day
> of actually being directly informed. Whether or not you feel that it
> is the distributor's responsibilty to organise bug fixes, remember
> that these are not centrally developed and have more in common with a
> collection of high-quality shareware than a package like, say MS
> Office, where all the programs therein are devloped in-house.
Sorry - I'm not interested - Active Technologies had the
responsibility (and it looks like allegedly have even run off with
someone's money - see another post someone else wrote).
> 4) Remember that the others on this list are people - that includes
> Chris Wiles. Some of the things said to and about Chris at times were
> seriously offensive, and yet still some people wondered why he stopped
> replying to this list for several weeks. Treat a person down the pub
> like that, and most people would probably give you a good beating.
Exactly - Chris W. is on this list but failed to respond when his
company had a legal obligation to do so. Nuff said.
> If you wish to debate any of these points, feel that I have missed
> anything, or generally disagree with the idea, please mail me
> personally at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On the other hand, if you feel that this is better as a public thread,
> then reply publicly
Ohhhh definitely a public one!
>
> Finally, please note that this is not an attack on any one person
> about any one issue.
I can accept that and my reply is not personally aimed at you (it's
certainly aimed at Active Technologies though!)
-Bridge
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Thanks to Olli for the NC2 MDII fix
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