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So since I was mentioned in a post on John Nack's site about my favorite thing in the world, namely Adobe installers, I want to say something here:

If there is any credit for this to be passed around, it is to many, many other people who are not me. The folks who make up the communities at MacEnterprise, AFP548.com, and hundreds, if not thousands of other IT professionals have been working patiently, and hard for years to get Adobe to listen about the problems their installers cause. I'm a johnny-come-loudly to this process.

Perhaps my...colorfullness and lack of shyness...had enough volume to rise above the threshold and get noticed. I know I'm not the first, the hundredth, or even the thousandth person to try to get Adobe to fix their installers. If I stand out in any way, it is for my willingness to to scream loud and ugly when needed, and my refusal to stop until I see some real progress.

The fact that Adobe is, to my eyes at least, taking this issue far more seriously than they have in the past, (at least from the outside. I can't know what they do inside, and if I did, I wouldn't talk about it here anyway) is fantastic. If my ranting and foaming and occasional good suggestion on many long phone calls with Barry and his folks have helped, that's great, although I'd have been just as happy had the ranting and foaming been unnecessary and nonexistent. As far as credit goes, I defer to Sir Isaac's comment:

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

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