I am with Allan on this one. I do a lot of my own programming and find
bugs years after I thought they were just right. In the Navy I was
responsible for testing an debugging the systems program for one of our
new ships. The way I did it is to not allow a programmer or expert use
the system but set loose a bunch of sailors. We crashed the program
daily.
Reason is, the person that does the programming and the experts know how
the program is "supposed to work". So they do all the right things and
it does. Then when it gets out to the public and they do not push the
buttone in the proper order...bomb.
For this reason I would never purchase a no-name company or person's
program until I could run it for a good six months. That is what
shareware is all about. To pay $200 for a beekeeping program which seems
to have nothing but complaints raised against it is foolish, no matter
how nice the seller is.
And as for as the "Grouch of the North", I disagree with his
"commercial" approach, but in my hard disk folder where I store the best
of what I read here for beekeeping ideas and techniques to use in our
State newsletter, his name appears most often.
Bill Truesdell
Bath, ME