Re: in search for better tools

[beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Ok. Can we just call this horse dead? (Or "bleedin' expired" as Monty Python
would say.)

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Leonard C. Porrello <
Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- soleratec -dot- com> wrote:

> Maybe Sharon can put in a request that any user named Robert Lauriston
> be programmatically prevented (for his own protection) from installing
> Flare. To the same end, I vote we put explicit warnings on hammers
> regarding their unsuitability for putting in contacts.
>
> Leonard
>
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> To: Robert Lauriston
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> Subject: Re: in search for better tools
>
> This is friggin' ridiculous. Robert, don't buy Flare.
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > What I said was, "Flare's feature for tracking help system usage
> > sending the log back to the software vendor does not get an opt-in
> > from the user, or even inform the user that it is doing that. Sure,
> > you can work around that by not using the feedback feature, but a
> > company making development tools for the corporate market should know
> > better."
> >
> > I didn't intend to suggest that the feedback feature is on by default.
> > It's an extra-cost add-on. That's irrelevant to my main point, which
> > is that MadCap should know better.
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Connie Giordano
> > <connie -at- therightwordz -dot- com> wrote:
> >> Robert, It's more because you refuse to listen to what Sharon is
> saying.
> >> Flare does NOT automatically enable the Feedback feature, you must
> implement
> >> it. If it was automatic you would have a legitimate concern. ...
>
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