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PFE? Just because no hands are in it, doesn't mean it isn't in use. Of course, freeware is free. So is a lot of code that still has hands in it. What you are saying is that as long as a programmer is willing to dink with it, there is no such thing as 'done', just 'versioned'. This side of shrinkwrap, there is not a very good profit on selling copies of software; there is good money to be made in the maintenance. len From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@m...] Bullard, Claude L (Len) scripsit: > So the value of The Bible, the works of Shakespeare, Lao Tzu, > and Hofstadter are zero unless we read them? They aren't *code*. I said code, and that's what I meant. The best indication of this is the discontinued-software bin, where old software is sold at about the media cost. People aren't willing to pay anything for software that's been end-of-lifed.
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