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echo: nthelp
to: Geo
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2006-02-22 16:05:20
subject: Re: what is wrong with the world?

From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"Geo"  wrote in message news:43fccb93{at}w3....
> Ok, so basically Acrobat Reader (free version) is just Notepad on
> steroids.
> It does display formatted documents, great but you can't edit anything.
> It's
> a glorified file viewer that views only ONE type of file.
>
> So today I was talking to an old friend about the mini systems we used to
> run, the biggest of which had 4 massive 64MB drives on it.
>
> As I'm talking to him I'm patching acrobat reader, that patch being patch
> 7.0.7 and it's 40MB (that's FORTY MEG) long.. For a patch for a file
> viewer?
>
> Somehow, somewhere, things have gone very very wrong..
>
> Geo.
>
>

Not only that - They require that you install and use their download manager

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