A Pound of Feathers!

(Note:  All users of Feathers! need to read all of this article.)

The old aphorism asks “what weighs more, a pound of feathers or a pound of lead?”  And of course the answer is they weigh the same.  But when it comes to the Feathers! software, today we have a metaphor.

What got me thinking in a philosophical way about this was that late yesterday the telephone rang in my office, and it was the Commissioner for Trademarks, Mary Boney Denison, calling for me. Continue reading “A Pound of Feathers!”