Doug Franklin wrote: >Delving into and explaining the basic stupidity of so much of the >"design" and "features" of different OSes and versions won't help anyone >here. However, based on my personal experience, Adobe (among others) >really, desperately, needs to acknowledge that it's /my/ /fucking/ >/computer/! And do what I tell it to do /in/ /every/ /case/, not just >when it suits them. > >And I'm not talking about stuff foisted upon them by the OS vendor, like >where ICC profiles "live". I'm talking about installing by a user other >than an administrator/root. I'm talking about when I tell you to >install in /boing/frodo/photoshop (or wherever) that you don't touch >/anything/ else unless you ask and receive my explicit permission. > >If they've finally gotten religion, then bless them. They lost my >support years ago by flaunting my instructions, asking where I want >things to go and screwing around with other things, anyway. For the >past several years I've been replacing Adobe products as fast as I can, >and I'll continue to do so, because they (among others, as I said) have >shown, IMO, unbridled contempt for me as a paying consumer. They offer >to sell me a car and insist on messing with my plumbing if I buy the car.
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