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From: pothead <pothead@snakebite.com>
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Subject: Re: The problem with not owning the software
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 21:00:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-01-03, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 09:09:35 -0500, Paul wrote:
>
>> Sales people sending materials to me at work, they always sent them in
>> .docx (not PDF) and the documents were always three pages long. You had
>> to wonder why all the documents were three pages long... I bet there is
>> a funny story involved there.
>
> A little paranoid but our FSDs were docx in house but were converted to a 
> read-only PDF when sent to the clients. I'm not sure anyone read them let 
> alone tried to alter them. That fight came later when what we said we were 
> going to provide wasn't what they thought we were going to do. 

Everything I have ever had to do regarding lawyers and legal or government documents
was requested to be in PDF.
I haven't done anything like this in a few years so maybe things have changed.

-- 
pothead

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