Re: World's worst software. What's decent?

From: Thaas (mysig_at_sprynet.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:16:37 GMT

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:17:05 -0400, Robert Hoffman
<bob@_I_Get_too_much_spam.com> wrote:

>Just because I'm not a great typast or speler or attentive to my
>apostrophe's does not alter the basic issue. The customer is always
>right. You don't design software to suit your own convenience, you
>design it to satisfy the customer. Several companies are not going to
>get the thousand bucks or so which I have budgeted for this software.
>It's probably not a triviality to them. (When I deliver something, I
>have someone who is better at grammar and spelling check it for me. I
>design things; I don't write dictionaries.)
>
>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd worry a bit more about your own spelling than trivialities like
>> 'color' versus 'colour'.
>>
>> --
>> Terry Pinnell
>> Hobbyist, West Sussex, UK

Try Fanix Software's AsUType at http://www.asutype.com 

-- 
Thaas

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