[pdftex] Adobe Battles Backward-Compatibility Woes

[Joachim Trinkwitz]

Am 10.04.2006 um 22:29 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:

> Adobe payed people for developing the PDF standard, hence I think
> Adobe is the owner.  Adobe has to provide new features in order to
> provide new products.  New products are needed to make sure that they
> can pay their employees in the future.
>
> I prefer open standards, but i cannot agree with making Adobe's PDF
> specification people's property.
>
> Making private property people's property is communism.

Then I think it's great to have so many communists around in big  
companies and institutions, like IBM or CERN, who make their own  
private properties people's properties - where would we stand when  
CERN (which paid Tim Berners-Lee) would have asked to pay duties to  
everyone who surfs the web???

Kind regards,
joachim

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