[ale] Rant[ish]: government and states requiring proprietary software

[michael.campbell at gmail.com (Michael Campbell)]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM, mike at trausch.us <mike at trausch.us> wrote:
> On 09/18/2012 09:45 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Ah. So get the stupid Adobe reader. Problem Solved.
>
> Yeah, sure.  Which breaks a whole schload of stuff, and is still at
> version 9, and is horribly written enough to bring my hexacore system
> with 8 GB of RAM to its knees.  No, thanks.  It's less resource
> intensive to boot Windows, sadly.

I have to call "shenanigans" on this.  I hate Adobe and MS as much as
the next guy, but... hexacore with 8G slowing to unusable on a PDF!?
Something's not right here.   (Granted, I've been wrong before, so
this may be one of those times.)