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And then there is also the situation where a program is adequate make do, but it's uncomfortable. For example: The first time we had a graphics printer at MIT, we wrote the software ourselves, and we put in lots of nice features, for example it would send you a message when your job had finished printing, and it would send you a message if the printer ran out of paper and you had a job in the queue, and lots of other things that were what we wanted. We then got a much nicer graphic printer, one of the first laser printers, but then the software was supplied by Xerox, and we couldn't change it. They wouldn't put in these features, and we couldn't, so we had to make do with things that &ldquo;half worked&rdquo;. And it was very frustrating to know that we were ready, willing and able to fix it, but weren't permitted. We were sabotaged.