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RE: Near and Far (Was RE: A parentless elemen t that

• To: 'John Cowan' <cowan@m...>
• Subject: RE: Near and Far (Was RE: A parentless elemen t that is not the document node - how?)
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:48:21 -0500
• Cc: xml-dev@l...

PFE?

Just because no hands are in it, doesn't mean it isn't in use. 
Of course, freeware is free.  So is a lot of code that still 
has hands in it.

What you are saying is that as long as a programmer is willing 
to dink with it, there is no such thing as 'done', just 'versioned'. 

This side of shrinkwrap, there is not a very good profit on selling 
copies of software; there is good money to be made in the maintenance.

len


From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@m...]

Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit:

> So the value of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, 
> and Hofstadter are zero unless we read them?

They aren't *code*.  I said code, and that's what I meant.
The best indication of this is the discontinued-software bin,
where old software is sold at about the media cost.  People aren't
willing to pay anything for software that's been end-of-lifed.

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