Actually, no I didn't. And I was thinking of scripting languages when I wrote my graf above.
"I don't think of spreadsheet files as software, because you can't
edit or execute a saved spreadsheet without it's associated application."
Most scripting languages don't require an app to create the scripts. Not even Visual Basic requires you to write your scripts in the IDE, it's just nice that the editor is there so you can. Likewise with Perl, Python and any other Unix scripting language, creating the script is as simple as using your editor of choice.
Now take Excel. Can you create a workbook without Excel?
Now don't get me wrong, there's pure software and then there is Software. Anything that can calculate an algorithm is pure software. Software is something you can go sell at a store. I don't think you can go sell an Excel worksheet at your local Babbages or Software, Etc.
Another thing I was aware of when I wrote the graf: levels for video games. But hey, that's another discussion, entirely.
Well, the reason these are getting rejected
is that we have another story in the pipe that
covers these topics. Sorry you feel like you are
being picked on, but the fact is: you aren't.
If you hadn't blanked your email on those
submissions, someone would have sent you a message
saying WHY your submissions were getting rejected.
In any rate, thanks for your dilligence. We
have the story already. You can stop submitting it,
now.;-)
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Yes. The headline was misleading, and I do agree. It did need fixing. I hope the latest revision is better.
I don't see why OSDN can't do this on *all* of their sites. It makes more since than the "message units" that we've been implementing.
(Yes, there are people back here, but we must run such things to marketing, just as everyone else does)
Now take Excel. Can you create a workbook without Excel?
Now don't get me wrong, there's pure software and then there is Software. Anything that can calculate an algorithm is pure software. Software is something you can go sell at a store. I don't think you can go sell an Excel worksheet at your local Babbages or Software, Etc.
Another thing I was aware of when I wrote the graf: levels for video games. But hey, that's another discussion, entirely.
If you hadn't blanked your email on those submissions, someone would have sent you a message saying WHY your submissions were getting rejected.
In any rate, thanks for your dilligence. We have the story already. You can stop submitting it, now. ;-)