[X4U] fellow luddites?

[nk]

playing devil's advocate here...

history also contains examples of lots of big users (like ad agencies) 
who froze all purchases beginning late summer of 2000 as the economy 
softened, and didn't upgrade to OS X and all the app versions until 
2004! In some cases, they're still on older gear and 'ware, and doing 
fine with it. IOW, it still cuts wood for them.

Are file formats relatively different? will TIFF and EPS be done away 
with? is text still text?

True, there are cases as with Adobe CS in which the older versions of 
some of those apps won't read files created with the newer.

But assuming one isn't working with such protectionist software, but 
rather with all the programs one needs, and assuming the internets 
won't convert to some format that absolutely requires THEE latest 
stuff, and assuming that not even gil bates will make electrons behave 
differently...

what's the actual danger?

nk





On Oct 29, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Linda wrote:

> You can look at history...