In article <tcastvrc90ihfd at corp.supernews.com>, spam at spam.com says... > Questions: > (i) Did you try to contact him directly ? He has always been very prompt in > replying > to me when I have, and I do *not* pay him a licence fee No, I posted to this newsgroup first. In my experience it is the quickest way to get answers. > (ii) Have you actually paid any money for mxODBC. If not, why do you expect > that it > should be perfect and that he should fix it for you quick smart if it aint ? Where did I say that I expected it to be perfect? Where did I say that I expected anybody to fix it? My actual expectation was that I was missing something obvious. I said that I thought it should be functional and complete if the developer expects to be paid a hefty licence fee per user. > I imagine you probably think that mxODBC and mxDateTime, a fantastically > useful package > as well, should be free for you to use and abuse simply because you expect > to be paid to > do development work for a commercial company, but you think that others > should provide > for free the tools you need in such work. Why leap to a bunch of conclusions about what you imagine I think? I tried mxODBC and found that it would not work for me. I asked for help in this newsgroup. Simple. I also commented that I believed the commercial license fees to be extreme for a fairly lightweight product. If I recall correctly I believe the licensing for mxODBC was on the order of $60 - $80 per user. If I distribute a python app that uses mxODBC to all the users in my business the license fees would add up to more than I paid for my entire SQL Server 2000 installation including client access licenses. > If its a problem, why not write your own DB interface and datetime support, > I'm sure you could > manage it in a jiffy ;-) My, aren't we argumentative! Do you really believe that I should never criticise a product unless I am able and willing to go out and create a better product on my own? If I make some critical comments about Red Hat Linux are you going to tell me to shut up and go create my own Linux distribution? If I state that I believe Oracle 8i to be overpriced are you going to sneer and tell me that, if I have a problem, I should just go write my own relational database?
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