[asterisk-users] IP Phone Provisioning Tool by voip.com.sg - xml generation

[Tom Rymes]

On May 4, 2007, at 10:08 AM, Stephen Bosch wrote:

> Tom Rymes wrote:
>>
>> On May 3, 2007, at 12:20 PM, Stephen Bosch wrote:
>>
>>> Mats Karlsson wrote:
>>>> Take a look here:
>>>> http://www.voip.com.sg/voip_products/ 
>>>> voip_ip_phone_provisioning_tool.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ugh. This is a Win32 app, isn't it?
>>
>> Wow,
>>
>> The guy makes a useful application and provides it to the  
>> community for
>> free and you have the cojones to bitch and moan b/c it's a windows  
>> app?
>> Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!

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> B. It's not a gift horse for me, because it's totally use*less* to me.

[snip]

It *is* a gift horse; he gave it to you, after all. The expression  
"To look a gift horse in the mouth" implies that someone gave you a  
horse and you looked into its mouth to see how old it is and whether  
it is of value to *you*. A modern comparison might be pulling up  
froogle to see how much a gift cost as someone gives it to you.

In other words, taking a gift from someone and questioning its value  
to you in front of that person's face is rude, inconsiderate, and bad  
form. I would understand a post along the lines of: "Wow, that looks  
like a great program from the description, but it's a windows only  
app, and I don't run Windows. Does anyone know of something similar  
for Linux?"

I dunno, I guess I'm not your mother, but then again, it seemed  
pretty rude considering the guy offered the program for free and you  
were criticizing the fact that he didn't develop a free linux app for  
you, too.

Tom