A few questions I should not have to ask....

[steve harley]

they whom i call Scott Stevenson wrote:
> 
> On Aug 15, 2007, at 4:30 PM, steve harley wrote:
> 
>> the concept i outlined falls into that large class of tools which, 
>> yes, should be used with caution (and which give big corporate support 
>> departments the heebie jeebies); perhaps in your world there are hard 
>> & fast rules about such things ... to protect us from ourselves, of 
>> course!
> 
> No, as an individual, you can do whatever you like to your apps. The 
> thing to be mindful of is writing and publishing a tool that boasts a 
> certain feature without any knowledge about what sort of user is 
> downloading it.

sounds like some sort of "code of ethics" for developers (i leave 
the door open for others to extrapolate); i'd boil it down to 
"please put a big fat warning on it" and leave it at that