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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Dear all,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">The intensive discussion "Corporate madness, ..." draws my attention to increasingly bad feelings of
about the software business. I have different opinions on shareware, open source projects etc.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Business needs to make money - so do i and there is nothing bad with it. However, sometimes i feel
really enslaved as a customer or user:</span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Corporate Identity is prior to useability (see the november gray interfaces of Adobe)</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Software i depend on for my business is not fixed (think a about that situation with
cars)</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">Paying for the sw for long years does not make it my property (well that's the same
with renting a
house) - but then they should not call it 'purchase'.</span></font></li>
<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">New features are introduced just to be able to 'sell' a new version, despite the fact
that long
lasting requirements are not considerd for implementation at all.</span></font></li>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">All in all: friss oder stirb (feed or die)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">For me the worst scenario will be SAAS (Software as a service), that is the sw is located in the
cloud. </span></font></div>
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<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">This is the end of Personal Computing.</span></font></li>
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<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">There will be no possibility to work with a version which i have learned and with which
i am
efficient.</span></font></li>
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<li style="margin-left: -13pt; margin-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; color: #010101; "><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt; font-family:Consolas; color:#010101; font-weight:Normal; font-style:Normal; font-decoration:Normal">There will be no chance for plug-ins -- THE horror scenario for FrameMaker (and many
others).</span></font></li>
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<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Just my few cents...</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Consolas" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Klaus Daube</span></font></div>
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