10-05-2006, 10:53 PM
question: is the tool in question actually the Adobe Suite, or the hardware and file system that the Adobe Suite runs on?
The tool in question is really the Adobe Suite. The file system underneath has no bearing on the productivity of the creative artist, until and unless the artist in question is asked to go out of the Adobe Suite (for example) and do something to the hardware and/or file system.
But if the artist is never asked to do anything with the hardware and/or file system, then those aren't the tools in question. The boss is perfectly logical to say, "Oh, we have people who deal with that hardware stuff. I need you to be creative and use the *creative* tools."
The warehouse driver doesn't really care what gasoline the company owner specifies for the delivery truck; he cares that the truck works and has a/c and a radio and lets him do his job well and efficiently.
If he went in there and insisted that he simply cannot drive a truck on Shell gas, that he uses only Sunoco gas, the company owner would seriously question that.
The tool in question is really the Adobe Suite. The file system underneath has no bearing on the productivity of the creative artist, until and unless the artist in question is asked to go out of the Adobe Suite (for example) and do something to the hardware and/or file system.
But if the artist is never asked to do anything with the hardware and/or file system, then those aren't the tools in question. The boss is perfectly logical to say, "Oh, we have people who deal with that hardware stuff. I need you to be creative and use the *creative* tools."
The warehouse driver doesn't really care what gasoline the company owner specifies for the delivery truck; he cares that the truck works and has a/c and a radio and lets him do his job well and efficiently.
If he went in there and insisted that he simply cannot drive a truck on Shell gas, that he uses only Sunoco gas, the company owner would seriously question that.