On 3/13/2011 4:02 PM, Jerry wrote: > So I am naive, then what are you? You CC'd me even though I > specifically stated that off-list replies are basically ignored. In > following with my basic procedure for unwanted e-mails like that, I > reported it as SPAM.
Well, it's not exactly "unsolicited," given it's a response to something you said, and it's not hawking any good or service so it's hardly "commercial." I think you're going a bit overboard here. > Now, XP sales were terminated on October 22, 2010, with support for > service pack three to end on April 8, 2014. True, but more or less irrelevant. Consider how long it's taken to kill IE 6, even when Microsoft's been making IE 7+ free downloads for as long as can be imagined. XP is going to suffer much the same fate. I would be absolutely gobsmackingly astonished if XP dropped below, say, a 10% market share before 2015. Remember what it was that killed Vista -- the perception that XP was good enough and nobody needed what Vista was offering. Now consider that Windows 7 is basically just a rebranded, remarketed Vista. It seems highly premature to declare that XP is on its last legs. It's transitioned into the end-of-life stage, yes... but there's no knowing how long it'll hang on. > It has been superseded by another product which works differently. It has been superseded among the bleeding-edgers. There are still a lot of people who insist on using OE on the grounds of, "I don't want to have to learn a new user interface." > To continue to actively support a piece of dead software is a poor > use of one's time and resources. I would agree with you if I thought XP and OE were dead. I don't. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
