Robert Davies wrote:
> That won't hit them in their pockets.
However various people I've spoken to use:
Distiller
Framemaker
Various other commercial Adobe packages
> Remember your system uses Adobe PostScript to print, even if it is
> actually going through ghostview.
That's not affecting their pockets and postscript is actually a pretty
good thing - what we should do is, as you say, hit them where it hurts.
> Obviously things like this ebook is evil, I've not bought any DVD's
> with regions on them for similar reasons.
I only started buying DVDs after the gift from Spider Software appeared.
I wouldn't buy ebooks unless I could remove all copy protection.
> I'm kind of sneakily hoping that making enemies of Defconf attendees,
> won't prove the smartest thing, ever.
I'm hoping someone cracks in to Adobe and causes them a lot of nasty
horrible pain. I don't mean a website defacement, I mean someone
seriously fucking them over to prove a point.
> Adobe better have good security consultants
Let's hope not - I look forward to the backlash they will now receive.
--jcm
P.S. I don't own a postscript printer :P
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