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Confusious (Bill Campbell) say:
> 
> Now when companies like Adobe produce commercial software that
> won't install on case-sensitive file systems (e.g. Photoshop
> Elements on OS X), that I consider totally ridiculous, and a mark
> of poor software engineering.

Adobe == poor software engineering

You can actually exhaust your GDI Objects limit even in Windows XP, simply
by opening and closing Acrobat Reader a bunch of times.  It has a steady
leak.  But it's consistent, and I have proven it tonnes of times with
TaskInfo on my systems here.

We won't get into how valuable Acrobat Reader is as a system performance
benchmark.  You can pretty much tell how powerful systems are by how long
it takes to open Reader, sadly enough.  The last program I remember being
-that- bad about that was uhm...the travesty that was Netscape 6.

Their new Adobe Air isn't too shabby, from what I've seen of the gog.com
downloader that uses that as its base.  It'd be tempting to look into it
if I didn't know in advance that, simply because it has Adobe's name on it,
it's going to be overpriced as hell.

Then there's their "net connection required to activate" policy and
engineering.  Don't start me.

mark->
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