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Eudora Pro in the news, but not good. One thing it shows is that a LOT of people want to use anything but Microsoft in the interests of maintaining competition. Or maybe they just like what they are used to.
In case the news url is cancelled, the correspondent downloaded Eudora Pro 4.1, which didn't work and knocked out his computer, requiring reinstallation of Windows. Also, Eudora's download time was lengthy.
The main comment is that companies should ensure things work properly and if Microsoft software was essential, it should not be an option for the person to click 'carry on regardless'.
I remain a Eudora Pro 4.0 fan club member and hope QUALCOMM treats Eudora as an advertising, Web linking, customer relations, competitive positioning, promotional, if not profit making from sales, useful addition to the portfolio of products and services.
If they can't put enough software engineers on it to make it popular, open it up to the public to develop using Microsoft's embrace and extend philosophy.
Mqurice
***OT*** Walt, I guess the Vincennes did just like the Russians = assume a threat and as you put it, 'take out the threat', which means the USA has the same moral attributes of the Russians = military interest comes first and any civilians getting in the way will be killed.
There was no warning to the civilian aircraft to turn right or left or do something to avoid being attacked. There was no pattern of logical thinking along the lines of thinking "Hmmm, subsonic, taking off from a runway, looking like a duck, quacking like a duck, waddling like a duck, flying like a duck = might just be a duck! Hey, let's ask it if is a duck and tell it to go fly somewhere else."
Yes, I know there was some low level military activity at the time. The sky was not full of enemy aircraft - the only one shot down was the duck.
I'm happy for the military to shoot anything that moves on the basis that it just might possibly be a slow-moving heavily disguised threat, but they should not pretend to any moral superiority over the Russians, who at least took the trouble to warn the trespassing 747 to obey orders - declined. There seems a better case to shoot down the defiant, criminally trespassing 747 than an innocent duck dumbly taking off with transponder, air traffic approval and everything normal.
Okay, so the Vincennes can claim incompetence and fear as a defence. Doesn't sound like Westpoint to me.
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