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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: neil555 on May 28, 2022, 01:18:31 pm ---There's so much badness to choose from but here's a few ...
Linux (any version)
GCC (has to be the worst compiler ever)
Xilinx ISE
Anything by Adobe
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Really? I admit I haven't used Adobe Photoshop since Adobe moved to subscription-based licensing a decade ago, but before that, it really was the bees knees for image manipulation.
bd139:
Indeed. Photoshop and Lightroom are absolutely excellent. Nothing comes near them.
They are the two bits of software that doesn’t hurt to pay for. It’s also really cheap!
fourfathom:
--- Quote from: Zoli on May 24, 2022, 05:53:23 pm ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on May 24, 2022, 04:53:10 pm ---...
One of the founders is still in dispute about a piece of beach he illegally owns (or doesnt)
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He owns the access to the beach; this kind of behaviour is worse then just fighting over the beach in question, IMNHO.
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As far as I can tell, he owns the beach down to the Mean High Tide line (below MHT all beaches in California are public property). The previous owner allowed access to the public portion of the beach, sometimes charging a fee and otherwise not, but this access was voluntarily given and not a deeded easement. The current owner (Vinod Khosla, one of the founders of Sun Microsystems) decided to no longer allow access over his property, and I believe that this is his legal right. A group of people who had been using this access complained and Khosla was sued. Sometimes "Adverse Possession" is claimed when access over private property is desired, but I don't think this really applies in this case. But that's the battle.
Disclosure: I know Vinod, he was our principal venture capital partner at my last company (a very successful start-up).
Gregg:
*Anything Norton*
I used to install Norton anti-virus on my wife’s computer because she isn’t too careful with the things she clicks on. I used to buy the retail version good for a year when it was on sale for about 75% off of the overly optimistic retail price.
A couple of years ago, I purchased a new copy on a CD on sale at Fry’s. (I have fond memories of Fry’s) On the box was some ambiguous wording about subscription. The deal was that I couldn’t install the software that I purchased unless I logged on to Norton and signed up for automatic renewal with a credit card. Like I would trust a company that claims to be a major player in the internet protection racket that was operating in a manner that I was (presumably) paying them to avoid.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Gregg on May 28, 2022, 05:00:07 pm ---*Anything Norton*
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Except for Norton Commander... 30+ years later I'm still using the Linux clone 8)
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