Acrobat basic tool bar

Joel Hammer Joel
Mon May 17 11:34:31 PDT 2004


Good design is in the eye of the beholder. Having a working piece of
software install effortlessly is ok with me. I don't mind bloat. I just
buy bigger hard drives and more memory.

Joel

On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:48:37PM -0700, Net Llama! wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > I have been happily using acrobat 5.05 on my linux box. 
> > 
> > (I am impressed it didn't need an updated anything to install on my
> > caldera 2.4 boxes with the 2.2 kernel. Those guys at adobe must know
> > something a lot of linux programmers don't. If you want your program
> > to be used, make it compatible. Don't make your potential users update
> > everytime you release a new version, etc.)
> 
> Err..that's called compiling it as a static binary.  Hardly a 
> revolutionary concept, and not something you'd normally want to do if 
> you wish to avoid bloatware.  So in effect, you're praising bad design.
> 
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