Re: IBM dumb move #3,912,347

["Roger Pence" <rp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>   BTW, Anybody know what is the legality of downloading all the PDFs
> and burning a CD of 'em all?  Anybody wan't a copy???? (assuming it's
> legal of course!!!)

What good would it do you! You can't search across 'em! You can't even
search one of them! Adobe makes a great searchable index generator as an
add-on to Acrobat, but do you think IBM would use that? Noooooo.... that's
too obvious!

PDFs are good for one thing: making paper replicas. I'm a paper guy and do
that a lot. PDFs clearly have a purpose and do a good for what they are
intended to do. However, many times you need to search across many books.
This is a HUGE beef I have with AS/400 documentation! You'd think IBM could
do this, I'm pretty sure it can be with, oh, say, a computer!

Someone in Rochester should spend a little time with Microsoft's Developer
Network CD. Bet they're afraid they'll get rabies or something if they touch
one!

rp



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