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| From | Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too |
| Date | 2014-02-27 10:08 +0000 |
| Organization | Piglet's Pickles & Preserves |
| Message-ID | <bn8h53F7lvvU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2014-02-26, Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> wrote: > On 2014-02-25 21:31, Huge wrote: >> On 2014-02-25, Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> wrote: >> >>> Employers LIKE to pay for software though. >>> Gives them that warm and fuzzy feeling. >> >> That's about all it gives them. > > Kickbacks? Not IME. There seems to be an imperative from senior management that we must have "support", so they buy expensive (and frequently poorly performing) software from companies such as I*M, M*******t and O****e complete with even more expensive "support" contracts, then allow the software to get so out of date that the "support" we're paying for is no longer available. -- Today is Pungenday, the 58th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3180 "Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath"
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Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood <rswood@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 10:30 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 14:08 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2014-02-25 09:32 -0500
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-02-25 15:34 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-25 20:04 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-27 15:38 -0800
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-25 21:31 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-02-26 10:46 +0000
Re: Jack Germain prays Adobe will make software for Linux too Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-02-27 10:08 +0000
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