Re: generate report in excel formate

On Jul 19, 6:42 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:20:22 -0000, Twisted <twisted...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

For generate excel in java,jxcell is a good choice.http://www.jxcell.net

ALERT! hh just attempted to stick a hand in your pocket. This jxcell
thing is not free. What is downloadable there is apparently crippled
in some way. DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME. Continue searching for a free
alternative. Save your money. Don't subsidize subtle spammers.

It is $300 US.

Ludicrous. That's gotta be a whopping $300 more than it costs.
Whoever's selling it (hh?) is laughing all the way to the bank --
every purchase is pretty much pure profit margin.

The site has a PURCHASE button which makes it clear the program is not free.

However, the posting here by hh did not say anything at all to warn
the OP that their link would be worthless at best and a dangerous
trap* at worst for people without a spare $300 to blow on their
programming hobby.

I don't know where you get his idea that people who develop software
don't need money for rent.

I've never claimed anything of the sort.

* The OP might have not looked at the navigation buttons and just gone
straight for the download link. This is a link to a binary, not to
another Web page, so they'd just think they had the software and go to
use it. And then one day, bang -- it just tells them to pony up and
drops dead, leaving them in the lurch. They may have grown dependent
on it -- or worse, locked in to some proprietary data format it uses
for something -- and it's therefore too late for them to choose
something else, say something FOSS. Now they're forced to pay $300, or
suffer catastrophic data loss that might well be just as costly to
them if not worse.

Links to unfree stuff of any kind should be
a) Avoided. Not only are they less useful than links to free
alternatives, they are also potential traps (see above) and call one's
motives into question (are you getting a commission on every sale by
any chance, hh?)
b) If you really must, make sure to state up front in clear English
that people with spare money they're willing to blow need not apply.

This applies also to links to information behind paywalls, as well as
timebombed software. Stuff behind non-pay registerwalls too -- paying
in being deluged with spam or telling them where you live and your
favorite sexual position or whatever else their marketing dept. wants
is still paying, and it's jumping through hoops and wasting your time
to boot. (Gordon Beaton, who earlier and in another thread suggested
that I post something to a "newsgroup" that turned out to be a Web
forum requiring I sign up before I could post, take note. Even if I
didn't have to sign up, it would be a hassle having to regularly go to
an additional web site every few hours to look for replies instead of
just checking in my newsreader via the read-only nntp server I use for
reading news since GG has gotten so shoddy of late. I like having all
the replies in one place, my Thunderbird, and not scattered across a
zillion different Web pages, and I also like only having to hand out
private info to a) my ISP and b) Google and not c) a zillion
additional forum operators. It's bad enough that I have no news
posting ability that lets me mung my email. This gmail account gets a
thousand spams a week already as it is, which means anything that
mistakenly gets classified as spam gets deleted unread as I don't have
time to review 1000 messages a week for false positives.)

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