On 2010-10-07 7:55 PM, Michael Adams wrote: > On Friday 08 October 2010 08:21, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-10-07 2:10 AM, Michael Adams wrote: >>> With Open Source Software there is always a way. In this case it >>> required a little programming. If you are not up to this yourself >>> you could pay someone to do it for you. As with all good Open >>> Source projects you should then contribute this back to the main >>> trunk for evaluation and possible inclusion into the tree.
>> I know what free software is, and I know that I could always pay >> someone to code whatever I might need, but I didn't ask that, did >> I? >> >> Answers like this are a total waste of everyone's time (yours, mine >> and anyone who bothered to read your non-response). If you don't >> know how to do it, then don't say anything. > Respectfully, I told you how to do it. No you didn't, and now you've wasted more of our time... What you did was provide a response that would have been appropriate if aimed at someone who was repeatedly asking the same question and/or whining about a missing feature, neither of which describes the situation. > There is no other way, IMHO, as curently the program does not support > it. Had you prefaced your first response with that comment it would have completely changed its tone - as it was, your response was just condescending. Oh - and by the way - I cannot count how many times I've seen someone respond like you did on some other list, only to be proven wrong (ie, that there *is* a way to do whatever it is). --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
