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* Arthur Bergman (sky@xxxxxxx.xxx) wrote:
>
> I am ready to buy your explanation that people writing
> installation software are sadists.
>
But remembe,r when they are writing installation systems their
sadism is under check from the sales and marketting people
around them, who want you to install the software just so they
can sell you upgrades in the future. Its when they write uninstallers
that they really get free reign and even encouragement from their
spiteful sales colleagues, who realise that everytime a large
IT department uninstalls their software, they lose a chance to
sell upgrades and hence will have to put up with a non-metallic
paint job for their upcoming pretend sports car.
Also, o you think these buggers have some sort of professional body?
Where they sit and compare mechanisms for making the end users
lifes hell, classics such as ...
put the one bit of user input halfway threw the long install
meaning that after you come back from coffee you have to
press return and then sit and wait for the damn thing to
finish - why couldn't they ask at the start, the answer of
course is they could but they prefer you to suffer.
or
those license key boxes where i'm sure they randomly
remap the meanings of tab, right arrow and return on
each display of the box so you can never seem to type
the subsections of one or two chars in correctly.
bastards, but if hell does exist, i'm sure it has a special
punishment for them where they get to install their own software
in the morning and uninstall it at night - rolling a huge rock
or having their livers pecked out is too good for them.
Greg
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