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Old 01-11-2009, 08:36 AM   #81
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Originally Posted by jbjb View Post
Then that is a sad indictment of the publishing industry. Version control of electronic documents is a problem that has been solved for decades now. Nothing expensive is required - there are plenty of free solutions which are happily relied upon by billion-dollar businesses (and that work very well).
Why do you think the time is free? Using version control systems with people who are not programmers usually cost a lot of time. Even with programmers there are costs. You also have cost for backup and running a repository server. And you might have to hire somebody new that have the competence.
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