Tumbled Logic

Unfit for purpose

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…I’m left once again with a product that doesn’t work as advertised, due entirely to the publisher’s paranoid and vain attempts to stop the illicit spread of the PDF. And the irony is, as always, that I could have downloaded the PDF illicitly, and got a more usable product at no cost.

So I’m not going to buy another PDF from Apress unless they start selling unprotected PDFs. I might go look at the Pragmatic Programmer’s catalog now, since I’ve heard they sell real, usable PDFs.

DRM: inconveniencing only the legitimate customers since 1990-whatever.

(be sure to read the whole post for the background).