[LINK] Estens report posted

Michael Still mikal@stillhq.com
Sun, 10 Nov 2002 17:54:27 +1100


On Sat, 9 Nov 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, James Pearce wrote:

> > Well, at least it's not PDF.
>
> PDF might be just as proprietory as Word, but at least it is a published
> standard which Word most certainly isn't; and accessing a PDF in Netscape
> or lynx does at least render it, which Word doesn't.

PDF is an open specification, in the sense that anyone can download it and
implement their own software (Adobe waive their rights for the purposes of
implementation).

Sure proprietory implies that the specification isn't available?

Mikal

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Michael Still (mikal@stillhq.com)     UTC +10 hours