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I was thinking of a situation in which the Marketing guys were given
programmer source code to "customize." I see where you're coming from
though.
Paul
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Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 7:59 PM
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Subject: RE: Looking for re-packaging publishing app
Paul said:
Totally agree. Think of your docs as programmer source code.
> Would anyone give the person making the request your
> programming language software and allow them to "customize"
> the output? I hope not.
Actually, this is very common. Outside of home users and small businesses
it would be the norm for commercial software to be customised in some way,
either to 'do more stuff' or 'do stuff our way' or 'work with our other
stuff'. The customisation can be done by the vendor, the customer or a
third party.
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