On 4/19/2011 2:45, Invisible wrote:
> I don't personally know of anybody who actually sent a cheque

AFAIK, I'm the only person in the entire world that ever paid for WinZip.

> without the net it would have been infeasible.

Yep. And without Windows it would have been infeasible too, because there 
wouldn't be enough people with compatible hardware to have a hope in hell of 
getting it working on enough varieties of machines to make it worthwhile.

> of a lot of money for a program that doesn't even *do* very much and isn't
> especially complicated.

This coming from the guy who can't find the documentation on how to make it 
do stuff? :-) Granted, most people don't use most of its sophisticated 
features, but saying Word doesn't do much is like saying LaTeX just 
translates one text file into another format, no biggie.

> Silly me, I'm thinking that prices have something to do with what it costs
> to produce something. This is the 21st century. Prices are driven by how
> much you can rip people off and get away with it...

They always have been.

> I *do* use one of the free alternatives. At home, anyway. At work, I use
> what my employer provides. More to the point, I have to *support* what my
> employer provides, which is why it's so infuriating that there's no
> documentation. [Which is how this discussion started in the first place.]

Next time you have a problem, I'll show you how to find the answer. It's 
generally not difficult, altho sometimes it can be ugly. Especially if 
they've rearranged their site and you start getting 404's.  Really, 
Microsoft? You run Bing but you haven't figured out how to not have internal 
links to broken pages?

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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