a. No, they were paying me to develop a test suite... b. Because I wouldn't want to be sued by ... oh, that was close ;-)
b.b. Probably spent too long "south of the border". c. I agree, but this is the usual case of them developing for windoze and exploder and not giving a flying f*** about the rest of the planet. The usual short term thinking that gives software development a bad name. Ciao Richard -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than AufWiederSehen! http://www.rfi.net/books.html > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:43:36AM +0200, Richard Foley wrote: > > This sounds similar to the response I got when reporting a number of bugs > > in released software at a company which shall remain nameless. The > > suggested fix > > > > was for me to: > > "change your operating system"... > > > > There's really no (polite) answer to that. > > a: Had you previously paid them money for this software? > > b: why are you still being nice enough not to name and shame them, so that > they get the reputation, mindshare and customer base that they deserve? > You're usually far more "Yorkshire" than that. Is Munich slowly changing > you? :-) > > because it's sounding very much like they *don't* actually "support" the > operating system that you were trying to use, so it would be better if > their lies on this matter were public to avoid other people having the > same problems that you did. > > Nicholas Clark