(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 →