>>Is money the only factor through which one can contribute here ??? Currently off course my company is paying for my membership but say if I’m independtly working and not in a financial position to pay for PUTM, Does that means if I don’t pay I’m not contributing anything…
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>I apologize - I guess that there's an error here, since You don't show up as a PUTM. Or should you be inquring with your company's accounting department to see why they haven't paid your PUTM fees?
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>I pay my own PUTM fees. I also pay for my own MSDN subscription for different reasons related to intellectual property rights. The critical thing is I pay for the tools and services I rely on to pay the bills, regardless of whether I'm operating under the auspices of full- or part-time employment, or operating independently.
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>The argument you make is specious. From what you're saying, poor, independent programmers shoudln't have to pay for their tools? If I'm an independent contractor, I guess you feel that I shouldn't have to pay for anything - operating systems, compilers, MS Office, or for that matter, hardware! I like this idea - if you don't work for someone, but you want to work with VFP, Microsoft, Intel et al should give you everything you'd like to use for free. Just plead poverty...
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>The concept doesn't work from what i can see. And I though communism had flaws!

Pls read my first msg properly, I've clearly written that bcos there is no proxy support avl on UT Navigator as on Date, i.e. why I became member for 1 year, but that time also was not able to use it properly cos internet charges were too much... Bcos of which i'm not getting my premier membership now and will not take till proxy support is there...

I'm surpised how u are connecting os, compilers etc. with this thing... Nowhere in UT it is mentioned that basic membership is a illegal thing...

And when did i say that poor programmers shud not pay for compilers & OS ???

I bet if that is what are your policies and if you would've been the owner of UT... It wouldn't even have lasted 1 day...