This is getting out of hand now.
Adobe has released their latest Adobe Reader. Funny stuff can be read here and here. Yes if you want to read PDF:s with the adobes own reader you must have atleast +200 megabytes available on your hard drive.
This is a sorry state of affairs. This is not about bloat anymore. It is intrusive behavior by the software company. It is not new in the industry as a whole. Microsoft has done it, the redistributable for .NET 3.5 is a whopping 197 megabytes. Yeah old Realplayer stole file associations for media files types(persistent rumors say that they even didn't support). Apple did a nice trick with an update.
This is not about bad programming with way too many features A.K.A. bloat. This is wasting the resources of their users without "asking" them what they want. If they even bother to ask what the users want they have to take an action to avoid the feature(s).
Now ask yourselves this! What gives Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks the right, to steal disc real estate, your file associations and install other software that you downloaded?
This is a sorry state of affairs. This is not about bloat anymore. It is intrusive behavior by the software company. It is not new in the industry as a whole. Microsoft has done it, the redistributable for .NET 3.5 is a whopping 197 megabytes. Yeah old Realplayer stole file associations for media files types(persistent rumors say that they even didn't support). Apple did a nice trick with an update.
This is not about bad programming with way too many features A.K.A. bloat. This is wasting the resources of their users without "asking" them what they want. If they even bother to ask what the users want they have to take an action to avoid the feature(s).
Now ask yourselves this! What gives Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and RealNetworks the right, to steal disc real estate, your file associations and install other software that you downloaded?
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