Stupid Policies

How to rob people in the Android market

Some well meaning fool recently decided that it would be better if the Android market had a 15 minute return policy. This was the stupidest damn move ever. It used to be 24 hours, quite a fair time frame. Now however if your an app developer you can game the system. I was shown how in what I hope was an unintentional fashion by the people who did the Quake 3 port. I wanted to try this to see how it would perform and play on my Captivate but didn't see a trial, so I purchased it figuring I could try it and return it. I purchased the app and downloaded it, or so I thought.

Bellsouth DSL

Well almost changed DSL companies today. Changed my mind after reading the Bellsouth AUP. I pasting the letter I sent them below. Read it for yourself.

I just felt the need to let you know that your draconian policies cost you a customer today. I had planned on switching from Earthlink DSL to your DSL product. However, the following item in your AUP caused me to change my mind

“Reselling Service without express written consent from BellSouth, or offering any public information service using such accounts, such as running an e-mail server, Web server, FTP server, or proxy server is prohibited. Subscribers may not provide public or commercial information over such connections. BellSouth does offer BellSouth Internet for Business services for such purposes.

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