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On 04/12/2013 14:34, Neil Cerutti wrote:
> On 2013-12-04, alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/12/2013 5:13 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>> You poor fools you, this is what happens when you give control
>>> of the tools you use to a (near) monopolist whose incentives
>>> are not your incentives.
>>
>> To paraphrase Franklin: those who would give up control to
>> purchase convenience deserve neither. A lesson hard learned :(
>
> But Franklin's quote doesn't apply when free alternatives exist.

Free at the point of delivery, someone, somewhere, has given blood, 
toil, tears and sweat.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence