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What an arrogant, snobbish, and dangerous thing to wish for.

Once again, we see an otherwise, ostensibly smart person out there in geek land who can't see anything beyond his little techie world.

Talk about terminal subjectivity.

Millions of people can NOT afford the latest and greatest. What would he say to the people who wouldn't even BE computer enabled except for the fact that people like him no longer put any monetary value on old hardware and software, and that's all the monetary value that they can afford?

And then and there's others don't need it and are functioning well and even PROSPERING using something that's reliable, valuable to them but old.
Jeez. I RELY on my 15 year old text editor for ease of use, functions that I don't get elsewhere and for it's speed and efficiency. And did I mention reliable? I've never had this editor mangle anything, and on occasion it's been able to actually help me fix corrupted files that other hardware and software screwed up.

This BOZO wishes that it would just melt away only because it's old?

Plus he's probably a programmer. Does he not realise that in order for something like this to happen to software, this "melt" function would have to exist, either in the software or in the OS? Wow. More things for virus writers to exploit and cause havoc with.

Yep, arrogant, snobbish, dangerous, and let's add myopic.
I hope he likes his award. He better pray it's not obsolete anytime soon.

I will give up my DOS word processor when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

-m