Two questions, two answers:
1) I do check dates of original posts but consider a post to be 'alive' until the moderators close it.
2) Pathalogical was too strong a word; I'd just spent an afternoon trying to fix out a computer that had been XP'd so I was in a foul mood and Microsoft wasn't exactly top of my fan mail list!
I suppose my main gripe is with large corporations who sell us stuff before they've even finished making it. Moreover, when you take a close look inside some of the code it's decidedly messy.
Software is information, nothing more and nothing less and I'm a great believer in the free flow of information. I've never charged anybody for information. Long live freeware.
PS: Piracy is another matter.
