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Quark Inc, once the powerhouse of desktop publishing software was nearly ruined by an Indian national named Aulakh Kamar. Kamar, a former software tester conned his way into becoming CEO and laid off all the American developers at Quark. In one of the biggest epic cons in American history, he sent all the development work to India. The result? Quark's flagship product, Quark Express 6 was a total disaster and Quark lost 60% of its customers to Adobe. Kamar was later fired by the board when he was found out. But not before he did untold damage to Quark, Inc., ruining the company forever.

Didn't know that story. Figures it was a poo. In another lifetime I used Quark 4-5 hard on a daily basis and loved it. Simple, easy to use and I could produce a fuckton of work with it. Then it just seemed to fall off the face of the earth and companies went to Adobe's InDesign which was total dogshit. Photoshop and Illustrator were pretty good though.