[nzlug] Linux in NZ District Councils?

[Volker Kuhlmann]

> > http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/02/78913_HNpdfout_1.html
> >
> > Microsoft are damned if they do and damned if they don't, really.

Microsoft are damned? Now that would be good news...

> Hmm, interesting.   I didn't know that.   I'd say MS were a bit late to 
> implement it but I have to give them credit for trying.   (For those who 
> didn't follow the link -  MS are dropping a proposed 'save as PDF' function 
> from Office 2007 after Adobe threatened to sue).
> 
> I can understand Adobe being nervous about the possibility of MS taking away 
> their customers.     OTOH, that sort of kills any idea of PDF's being any 
> sort of de facto document standard, doesn't it?

There goes pdf as open interchangable document format. Replace one
monopolist with another. Adobe is obviously only interested in pushing
their "open" standards until they become a de-facto standard, and then
doing a Microsoft with them. See the forever shoddy implementation of
acroread for Linux, or the SVG vector image file format. The letter being
pushed by Adobe in reponse to Macromedia's proprietory xyz, but now that
Macromedia==Adobe, SVG has quietly fallen by the wayside.

Volker

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