Sancho Pancho de la Mancha:
“If I wasn't falling out of my chair right now….” I suspect you got a concussion when you fell off your chair. Better see a doctor. Make sure the doctor is not a FREEWARE doctor. Look on the bright side. The concussion must have improved your English! fst From: Johann Tienhaara [mailto:jtienha...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 6:28 PM To: discussions about usage and development of dia; Fred Teeboom Subject: Re: A rip-off is a rip-off !!!!!! Thank you for the laugh Fred, this has been by far the funniest series of mails to the Dia list I've ever seen. If I wasn't falling out of my chair right now I would agree with you: Dia is a "rip-poff". For the record it is also "simper" than Visio. It may even be the "simpest" diagramming software there is. Good luck tilting at windmills. Yours etc., Sancho Panza, Esq., O.B.E., Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical Institute of La Mancha _____ From: Fred Teeboom <fred...@comcast.net> To: 'Thomas Harding' <t...@thomas-harding.name>; 'discussions about usage and development of dia' <dia-list@gnome.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:54:29 PM Subject: A rip-off is a rip-off !!!!!! A rip-off is a rip-off !!!!! “This could be a good stuff for this month's 1sth...” You need to clean up your English typing, before you widely publish it in a USER’s FORUM. The gist of what I read is, that to obtain what I need I should read the source code and develop my own version? Huh???? I have a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science, but I would not even begin to waste a minute to unravel the spaghetti code typical of Open Source Freeware. What you should feature in your FORUM is: “If a vendor charges $14.00 for Freeware, not his own, on e-Bay, should he declare under the Product Description that this software is available free of charge, including the User Manual, for a couple of minutes of download time? No need to wait a week for a CDROM to arrive from England. And that the free download is a later version than the $14.00 version sent on a CDROM via USPS sneaker mail? Then there is the deception that Dia is a “simpler” version of VISIO? I downloaded a 60-day free trial of 2010 VISIO and I can tell you without reservation, Dia it is not even close! A rip-off is a rip-off !!!!!! Fred teeboom Nashua, NH
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