On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:57 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > The point is, you have no metric to base your statement on (either > the 90% claim, nor the "poorly written" claim).
You are correct in that I'm using no metric. My stance is qualitative, not quantitative. If that makes it invalid in your eyes, so be it. > Now, software has bugs. Yes, and in no other commercial endeavor are product defects simply considered acceptable as a matter of course. > But I'm sure we could find just as many spelling and grammatical mistakes > in the average post to the list. Does that mean that just about every here > (90%) > has a poor command of the English language? Perhaps not, but it does mean the quality of *usage* of the English language on this list is not very good. I expect that's not a problem, given that this is a free and rather informal discussion list. If I were paying tens of thousands of dollars for this list, I'd expect more. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
