[pdftex] Adobe Battles Backward-Compatibility Woes

[Hilmar Preusse]

On 11.04.06 Joachim Trinkwitz (jtr at uni-bonn.de) wrote:

Hi,

> > 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???
> 
Isn't the CERN an institution paid by the public e.g. the European
community. I.e. it is paid by people from the taxes. From these kind
of institutions I expect a little bit more to get back than from a
private company.
But, this is definitely off topic here.

H.
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