Re: Java and avoiding software piracy?

On Jul 23, 7:50 am, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
While you have the right to write whatever you want (with some
restrictions, though, with respect to saying wrong and bad things
about others, etc.), that amendment surely fails to give you the
right to demand anyone to really listen ...

Which is a problem. There should be a law requiring that companies
read and take appropriate action based on user feedback instead of
ignoring it, but all too many companies spend serious amounts of money
simply on plugging their ears and saying "Lalalalalalala" everytime a
user complains, from installing fancy phone systems and painstakingly
creating huge mazes full of dead ends with no "finally! a real live
human being!" cheese at the center -- or trick cheese ("AARGH! The
idiot didn't even listen to what I had to say, just waited for me to
say about three words and then transferred me back into the maze
someplace!")...

With such a law I'd have simply complained to Google and they'd have
been forced to not ignore me.

Try alt.whine.
I very much doubt any Google employees, let alone actual management,
pay attention to what goes on there,

So, where's the difference? The difference is, that
*there* your whining at least wouldn't be off-topic :-)

First of all, it might not annoy anyone there. Since someone annoyed
me I have to annoy someone back, so failing to annoy anyone would be,
well, failing. Also, of course, annoying someone here gives them
incentives to do something or suggest a way to make Google take notice
of my wishes and complaints in this matter, or disclose a useable free
NNTP server that permits posting, or something else of the sort to
make my complaints that they find so annoying go away. Failing to
annoy anyone in alt.whine produces no such incentives. Lastly, there's
the simple fact that I don't subscribe to alt.whine and don't have the
time to add another high-traffic newsgroup either. So I'd miss all the
responses, and then there'd be no point in my posting. Yet it had to
be posted. So it had to be posted to a newsgroup I already have
subscribed ... and besides, this newsgroup and my use of it was what
was affected by Google's egregious behavior to provoke the complaint
to begin with!

.

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