Re: History of copyright

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:
>     By the way, as an interesting example of what can happen if a manual
> doesn't get reproduced, consider one client of mine: they're still using
> PageMaker 5.0 (published by Aldus, and written to run under Windows 3.1),
> because no one on the staff (it's a small weekly town paper) has the time
> to learn the newer versions.

Ah! Behold the Fallacy of Insufficient Time. If you don't make
sufficient time, your failure to do so will almost certainly come back
to bite you sooner or later.

The refusal of your client to embrace the new is typical (although
perhaps, considering the number of people on this list who cling to 3+,
this is the wrong forum in which to bring up this subject) and,
ultimately self-distructive. The moral is, it is better to embrace the
new while you can still make time for it than later, when you no longer
have the option.

Patricia deserves a medal of honor for helping these people at all.



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