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On Tuesday 18 October 2005 12:20, James Thompson wrote:
> I think I have done a service to our community by bringing these dead 
> tools back to life. I do not deny that there is a possibility that 
> there are people who might overclean a tool which doesn't need it. But 
> I think we greatly overestimate their number. I don't worry about them 
> at all. Tools are no different than any other commodity.  You buy it, 
> it is yours, and you can do anything you want to it. If you destroy the 
> value, then you learn from that.

Hear, hear Jim! I'm with you on this! If someone is motivated to collect and 
invest in tools for a monetary reason, that's fine. Don't be mad at me for 
wanting to use them.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration
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