Re: Free Adobe Reader 8

Sebastian G <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> (07-04-17 17:42:24):

About the second, many of the formats we use are/were proprietary.
To name just a few: JPEG, MPEG, ZIP.

JPEG and MPEG have never been proprietary. The proprietary times of
ZIP are long gone by.

Why is it that way? It's because the specifications of those
formats are open.

Ehm... that's exactly why they're not proprietary.

Then we have differing definitions of `proprietary'. It can mean
`secret' as well as `owned by someone'. I've been using it to stand for
the latter.


Some are patented, but we still use them, because they fit a
particular purpose well, and there are tools freely available.

In Europe we use them because their patents are invalid here.

Another good point.


You will agree that PS/PDF documents, if created properly, have
excellent qualtity. That's why most scientific books and articles
are originally written in LaTeX and then published as PS and/or PDF.

I will agree that, by design, PDF has the need to maintain some
compatibility to PS. And even that already is a headache.

To be honest, I don't like PS much. But however, my documents are as
compatible as LaTeX generates them. I don't care.


Yes. There is nothing we could do about it.

Ehm... we could sue them, since they're partitially responsible for
incidents arising from advertising such misbehaviour.

The problem is that we won't be successful doing that, unless we're a
large corporation. Even then, it would take years and success would be
questionable. Although I don't like the marketing policies of current
monopolists and other big entities, IMO there is nothing wrong with
advertising (or otherwise making attractive) your product for as many
uses as possible.


Regards,
Ertugrul Söylemez.


--
From the fact that this CGI program has been written in Haskell, it
follows naturally that this CGI program is perfectly secure.
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