whats wrong with Icon workshop. I think it does Mac icons too right??


Oh and by the way, this was, without a doubt the funniest thread I have ever seen.

I never seen something get so out of hand in 10 posts at the begining of a thread.


Of course all of this could have been ovoided if the tone of the thread at the beginning

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Axialis Icon workshop is French.
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then by saying you do not want to support the French because a company is based there seems kinda... well... off. Like calling French Fires; Freedom Fries.

Now if you wanted to ovoid all French products that would seem more wholistic, but pointing out one company that acctually does good work while ignoring others seems... off.


Maybe, for me, it was the way this whole thread was approached.


I found out that Axialis is a French company and I decided not to use it in protest. Does anyone know of a program that is as good with the same features?


WAAAAY less angst.


bakerstreet, you crack me up!!! and make sense at the same time. not sure how you do that.

*sigh*

i'll say it one, last, time. The point in this post was a guy wanting to find an alternative to a program. Could have been any reason, it just happened to be one that rubbed some people the wrong way.

Sure, i'm tempted to go into why I stopped buying french products about 6 months ago, but I refuse to be baited into hijacking this guy's thread and turning it into a discussion about France. That is what I was trying to stop people from doing to begin with. Geez, let the guy buy or not buy what he wants.

I think it 'rubbed' people the wrong way because of how he stated it.

As I stated before, in his initial post it really sounded like he was downing the company for being French as oppossed to not wanting to use the program becuase he was boycouting ALL French products.

bakerstreet-I refuse to be baited into hijacking this guy's thread and turning it into a discussion about France. That is what I was trying to stop people from doing to begin with.
Gadget Girl thinks that bakerstreet decided to take it in a totally new direction, all on his own.

France is all over this board... look at the title.

France this... French that... and a political statement to boot.

Hard not to make it about France

"Axialis Icon Workshop is French"

anyway... of to skin something...

You are a sad, sad, man hashonboat. This is just like whats happening to us Canadians. We are being boycotted by various companies simply because our gov't disagrees with the war. Disgusting is all I have to say about this topic. The sad part is, poor hashonboat was probably brainwashed by the US media, who is having everyone believe "if your not with us, your against us". Or is this really what you personally feel? If it is, I suggest you go see a shrink before you worry about another nations interests/positions.


Chris

joetheblow-I think it 'rubbed' people the wrong way because of how he stated it.

As I stated before, in his initial post it really sounded like he was downing the company for being French as oppossed to not wanting to use the program becuase he was boycouting ALL French products.

Please tell me the diffence between the two reasons because I truly do not see it in this case.

ooooookay.

I think he has the right to boycout French companies.

Just like I have the right to boycout Mississipi bus lines.


The problem here is it seems by how he has written this thread is that it is a personal attack on the company for being French as oppossed to boycouting all Frecnh product with no offense to any piticular companies.


This is why he wants something else. You can't fault him for doing that.




sooo.... basically... GREAT. He got his answer and we have gotten to the root of the thread and why it went the way it did because of the title and the initail post. Probaly diod not mean it to be that way but that is how it read.

Done.

oh the difference is that in one isntance he doesn't want to use the product because it is from France. That is like saying, "Hey this is great, to bad its a frenchy product"

What I believe he was saying is, "While this product is good, I am boycoting the Frech government and its economy so I can not buy this product."

one way is sort of 'racist' because the company is bad just because it is based in france.


the other way is about boycoting all the products from a region not because the company is bad, but because you disagree with the goverment.

now if he wanted to boycot the company because it sold nuclear weapons to Iraq then that would be a direct action, but would have nothing to do with Axialis comeing from France.

I wish I could remember my English 101 classes. This is one of those 'them'/'it' confusions I think.

Icon Workshop is the avowed best cross platform Icon design/conversion software on the market.

As Jafo stated, the programmer is NOT the government of France.

"Can anyone recommend another program with the same or better capabilities ??"

No, no one can recommend another program such as is requested because there is not one.
So one is left with either lowering the capabilities of the software and maybe using
two or more applications to come close to the functionality of Icon Workshop, or stick
with the program you've found does exactly what it is you seek, or skip the best and
dig through the rest.

I hope it was a bad joke only, really not funny

"Let's all boycot any product coming from any country that does not agree with our government!"

This thread is totally baseless.

This threat is a shame...