Re: Foreign Language Spell Checkers

From: Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] (MillyS_at_donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org)
Date: 02/08/05 

Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:05:25 -0800

High horse = honest user... I think I will stay in that saddle, thank you.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Otto asked:

| And if I needed a car I would go and steal it, you also could have
| said. Please come down from your high horse. You convenietly
| disregarded the mention of purchase of Office. The point was about a
| minor, single purpose, add-on, and not the whole bunch of them, which
| are totally useless to the user.
| You seem to agree that a user should be forced to buy the whole CD
| for the use of couple of files. Too bad.
|
| Otto
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| <MillyS@donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org> wrote in message
| news:OwYAnvWDFHA.1936@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
|| So, if you need a drafting/modeling software but AutoCad is too
|| expensive, based on your personal experience in programming this
|| software, you feel entitled to pirate it because the AutoCad folks
|| are just too greedy and want
|| money for their efforts.
||
|| Makes perfect sense to me. Plonk.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
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||
|| After furious head scratching, Otto asked:
||
||| This sort of discussion underscores what's wrong with Microsoft (and
||| others) pricing policies, indirectly supporting illegal activities.
||| Having paid a premium price for Office 2003 and using it at 98% of
||| the time with only English, it is ridiculous to have to purchase an
||| entire CD for dozens of languages one would never, ever use.
||| Microsoft is making life easier for itself by bundling them all
||| together, for it figures companies would buy it regardless. To hell
||| with individual, occasional user, who only needs one or two
||| languages for occasional use.
||| Then they turn around and complain about illegal market and how many
||| sales they are loosing. I too have a need for a second language, but
||| I would never pay Microsoft for the CD at that price. Instead, I
||| found a legal, I think, way around it. But I would not at all loose
||| any sleep over using an "illegal" copy, if I found one. Some may
||| call it cheating, but I don't, because of the greedy pricing policy
||| of Microsoft. I use quite a number of shareware programs valued
||| between $20-$100 for which I gladly paid for, because it provided
||| good value for the money. Couple of files (dictionary & thesaurus)
||| for a language are worth about $10-$20. At that price Microsoft
||| would sell hundreds of them and make many customers happy. Their
||| present practice indicate that is not their desire.
|||
||| Otto
|||
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|||
||| "Brian Tillman" <tillman1952@yahoo.com> wrote in message
||| news:uTP$GGUDFHA.3256@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||| <MillyS@donteventhinkaboutmailingmemvps.org> wrote:
||||
||||| If you want the tool, pay for the tool or find another free almost
||||| as good as replacement.
||||
|||| And it was the latter he was trying.
|||| --
|||| Brian Tillman

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