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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: ALED goes to the wastebasket here in Iceland
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.171836.19573@uwasa.fi>
Date: 15 Jun 91 17:18:36 GMT
References: <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu>
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <27098@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer) writes:
>In article <foo>, ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
>> Having looked into so many programs in moderating garbo archives, I
>> can corroborate the concept that a significant portion of everything
>> is crap.  Yes, seriously.  The number of badly written programs,
:
>  Most of the programs posted are free; I think it's true usually that
>you get what you pay for.  Documentation and user interfaces are the
>two most commonly fouled up things in a program; however, did you even
>try this program?  Were you talking about this program, echoing what
>others had said about it, or just complaining in general?

Definitely complaining in general, or rather summing up my hopefully
longstanding experiences with shareware and freeware programs with
regard of this aspect.  Yes, I naturally know that much of what is
distributed is free, but it grieves me to see so much programming
effort wasted sometimes only because the lack of the final polish. 
My point here is to try to draw my fellow programmers' attention to
this problem, not to castigate anyone.

...................................................................
Prof. Timo Salmi
Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun