Don't be Adobe

[supergee]

I know that the famous stupid Bob Denver TV show was Gilligan's Island, but I wish it had been the other one so we could make cruel jests about "Adobe Gillis."* According to the tech support staff here at Valentine's Castle (womzilla), Adobe software messes up everything it touches, and now they have a clever plan to use DRM** to force everyone to buy their new product.

* But Dobie Gillis was the only thing Max Shulman ever did that I didn't like. It was my introduction to sociobiology, telling my impressionable teen self that if I did not succeed in society's terms, I would never ever get laid.

**Just as DARE stands for Don't Allow Reasonable Experimentation, DRM stands for Don't Read Much.

Thanx to andrewducker

Comments

[onyxlynx]

interesting! I hadn't thought of Max Shulman in years; I remember reading a Dobie Gillis and a non-Dobie Gillis book when I was 11 or 12 and getting many of the jokes (I would probably find them offensive now). (I did not get the sociobio message you got because that stuff wasn't even on my radar then.)

Subconsciously, this sort of planned obsolescence is probably the reason I don't do ebooks.