Just goes to show that Linux is a piss-poor, jerry-rigged Unix implementation. As to why they still didn't go to the effort, I'm guessing the market research went like this:
Q: How many potential users of Linux FrameMaker are legitimate desktop publishers, who might be drawn away from competitor's products by this alternative? A: <cricket, cricket>
Q: How many are post-communist radical open-source advocates, who don't have a legitimate use for the product, will demand that it be free and open source, and will simply install it so they can point at it when their friends say "Linux does not have any useful apps for end-users", and so they can make Happy May Day cards for their fellow socialists? A: All of them.
Maybe if Adobe could write it off as a charitable deduction, they could go to the effort to port everything to Linux so the poor commies who can't afford a real operating system can make invitations to their soviet meetings, but if they want to make money they should stay away from the watershed that is open source software.
Better equipped? Cracking PWs in any MS product (Windows PWLs, All Office programs, screen saver PW) is trivial. There'sabout a dozenprogramsoutthere that can do it toot-sweet, for free or for charge.
And those are just from one quick google search. Sounds like that PD needs to get an AOL account and a clue. I'm also sure the services provided by "someone better equipped" were rather overpriced. I do however agree with your point that law enforcement doesn't have much chance. As has been usual throughout history, they will catch the dumbshit crooks who use insecure MS passwords or 128-bit keys, and the smart ones will continually get away, MOTHER FUCKER
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Q: How many potential users of Linux FrameMaker are legitimate desktop publishers, who might be drawn away from competitor's products by this alternative?
A: <cricket, cricket>
Q: How many are post-communist radical open-source advocates, who don't have a legitimate use for the product, will demand that it be free and open source, and will simply install it so they can point at it when their friends say "Linux does not have any useful apps for end-users", and so they can make Happy May Day cards for their fellow socialists?
A: All of them.
Maybe if Adobe could write it off as a charitable deduction, they could go to the effort to port everything to Linux so the poor commies who can't afford a real operating system can make invitations to their soviet meetings, but if they want to make money they should stay away from the watershed that is open source software.
And those are just from one quick google search. Sounds like that PD needs to get an AOL account and a clue. I'm also sure the services provided by "someone better equipped" were rather overpriced. I do however agree with your point that law enforcement doesn't have much chance. As has been usual throughout history, they will catch the dumbshit crooks who use insecure MS passwords or 128-bit keys, and the smart ones will continually get away, MOTHER FUCKER
you could be like me. I metamod every day and rate every mod as "unfair", justified or not. fuck all you karma whores.
Do you find it hard to hide the fact that you are gay?
RIGHT ON! What's this:
/. moderator's ass! (or)
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Linux kernel hacker's ass!