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Subject: [Leica] OT visceral scream: I **hate** Adobe Updater
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon Aug 11 22:54:25 2008
References: <B3EBAFE0CA158054B9E6859E@rutabook.waverley.reid.org> <r245ps-1054i-5CE90695465049EF9DEC74A960A3F313@MacBookPro15-2.local>

Well I'm betting it's the "one code-base" thing that drives the
updater design but it's just a guess.

Adam

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:59 PM, David E. Labovitz <del@pscc.com> wrote:
> Brian --
>
> Adobe was at one time on the other side of the road.  It appears that
> they've now grown much too large, hiring help from Microsoft and, before
> that, IBM.  Seems to me that more and more reasonable programming standards
> and principles are lost as time marches on.  That said, I wonder who
> supervises and signs off on the work of these folks.  Their design 
> committee
> has obviously outgrown its conference room.  And why do they go out of 
> their
> way to invent new and inferior, extremely forgettable methods of doing
> things for which standard conventions already exist?
>
>
> Dave.
>
>
> On 8/11/08 at 11:39 PM, reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) wrote:
>
> |The *#&^!^! Adobe Updater program *always* pops up at times when I'm 
> racing
> the clock. It
> |doesn't know how to run in the background. It requires that you exit the
> program whose launch
> |triggered it in the first place. Even Windows Update is better better
> better. I hope the
> |programmer at Adobe who designed Adobe Updater gets ulcers and has to
> retire early. Adobe knows
> |how to make good software; why did they let some moron design the Updater?
> |
> |
> |
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In reply to: Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] OT visceral scream: I **hate** Adobe Updater)
Message from del at pscc.com (David E. Labovitz) ([Leica] OT visceral scream: I **hate** Adobe Updater)