Actually people don't give a shit who work there (a big chunk of the staff steal produce or write it off and take it home as well), there are plenty of other shops to choose from, the police don't care (in the UK they send you a letter if you get mugged apologising for not coming out) and the business find it costly to deal with the people. It's only significant if it's more than a few pounds/dollars which is why high value retail tend to have competent security.
When capitalism pushes profit margins, some losses are insignificant not to invest in otherwise they will hurt the margins they are trying to protect.
Also if they gave a shit, they'd have staff on all checkouts and not use self-service checkouts. Staff are more expensive.
there cannot possibly be a better specification than freely available source code
That's even more horse shit and a poor excuse if there ever was one for not documenting something properly.
The source code by nature covers a subset of the standard as it can't cover every logical edge case and it isn't verified. At least the documentation is the verification source.
Not only that, I've delved into the LibreOffice source code and it's horrible, convoluted and a rats nest from hell.
Hardly. Here's my perspective which will hopefully make you understand.
I live in a poverty stricken area. The supermarkets shove the following distribution of fruit out (I know this because my wife works in one as well):
- 20 bags of 5x apples for £1.89 each. 20% go in the bin.
- 100 pink lady apple at £0.75 each. 80% go in the bin.
- 20 cheap apples (one tray) at around £0.12 each. 0% go in the bin.
Now, why should I take the last single cheap apple which instantly prices out the poorer people which is clearly the intention of the supermarket which is to upsell to the pink ladies or bags of apples?
Fuck 'em to hell. There is no honour or integrity in capitalism. Trample over everyone to make profit.
I'm not selfish.
I'm not lacking integrity.
I'm not lacking honour.
Perhaps lacking in faith and respect for rules but that is my only crime.
Spot on this is normal. I work in the financial services sector and stuff still arrives on dialup and ftp from mainframes regularly in all sorts of odd formats. SOAP is what is in the executive bathrooms and JSON is the cleaner's name and that is it :)
This is quite neat compared to the average shitfest people leave inside wordpress templates. I had to unpick a whole 200 page intranet written with wordpress and buddypress (which stinks) recently and rewrite it as a non-wordpress site as it's hit the inevitable hack brick wall.
It's now an asp.net mvc app on Azure. There's hardly any code in it now and a the page response times are down at 50ms rather than 1500ms! One query per page vs 400 as well.
Everything there could be applied to pianos but you don't see people lining up to rant about them on blogs.
Word is "good enough" which is more than both the macro-driven systems (i.e. LaTeX, troff) have mustered and the opposite end of the spectrum with the layout based tools.
To be honest, every time I use Word, I'm relieved it's not HTML.
That's actually a load or horse shit (excuse my French). I've worked with both ODF and OOXML extensively as we write document templating software and I'll pick OOXML over ODF any say. It's less quirky, there are decent COTS tools to handle it and the output rendering is consistent regardless of which tool you pick to do the rendering. It's also better documented and way more intuitive.
I really don't know where you are getting these facts from other than the usual spiel that Microsoft does only evil.
The standards are open, published and free to implement (look for Microsoft open specifications). The documentation is way better than anything else out there.
So LibreOffice obviously reimplemented lotus 123, wordperfect and wordstar did they as well?
When capitalism pushes profit margins, some losses are insignificant not to invest in otherwise they will hurt the margins they are trying to protect.
Also if they gave a shit, they'd have staff on all checkouts and not use self-service checkouts. Staff are more expensive.
They know; they just don't care.