• Walk away and find a not incompetent lawyer.

• Send him docx files and tell him if he can’t work with modern files he needs to fix it. It’s like $30/mo for an office subscription. There’s no excuse for him being so cheap.

He’s a negotiator in the same way the drive thru person at McDonalds is a negotiator.

How do you know it’s not whispering in the ears of Techbros to wipe us all out?

So you would be using CoW in-memory in this case?

Is there a benefit to doing CoW with Pandas vs. offloading it to the storage? Practically all modern storage systems support CoW snaps. The pattern I’m used to (Infra, not big data) is to leverage storage APIs to offload storage operations from client systems.