Christiaan Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 More validation of NNAs decision to embrace PDF: Adobe's PDF now an ISO standard http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071205-adobes-pdf-now-an-iso-standard.html Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 The lesser evil? Instead of forcing us to pay licence fees to Microsoft, the ISO has mandated that in order to comply with a standard, we have to pay similar fees to Adobe. The French seem to be the only ones standing for anti-monopolism. Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 That begs the question Petri: What is the universal viable alternative then? Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 I don't know! This is, I think, still unprecedented in the history of ISO. If there are no universal alternatives that do not attract licence fees, ISO should not standardise anything. This is a licence to print money! Besides, the entire logic behind this kind of standardisation escapes me. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted December 6, 2007 Share Posted December 6, 2007 Adobe PDF has earned the right to be a viable international standard. And there are plenty of "free" Open Source flavors to choose from as well. PDF is a universally recognized standard .. not " the lesser evil". As a PDF publisher since v1 ... I attest to the fact that PDF really works great ! Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Petri, I won't disagree with you there. Standards are only worthwhile when they have a value and a purpose. Without that they are pointless. Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted December 7, 2007 Author Share Posted December 7, 2007 I don't get it. As the article says it's "already licensed for free and readily available to anyone wishing to develop software capable of reading, writing, or processing PDF." Quote Link to comment
Petri Posted December 7, 2007 Share Posted December 7, 2007 Is that so? They used to charge licence fees. Quote Link to comment
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