Why IP owners should worry

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Subject:        Re: [IP] Why IP owners should worry]
Date:   Fri, 25 Nov 2005 08:13:47 -0700
From:   Brett Glass <brett () lariat org>
To:     dave () farber net, ip () v2 listbox com
References:     <4385FF6E.3030404 () farber net>



Melanie Wyne writes:

> More than two years ago, Massachusetts embarked on an "open  
> standards, open source" policy, ostensibly working to guide its  
> executive agencies toward a more citizen-accessible, cost-effective  
> management of state IT assets. The state finally settled on the  
> mandated use of OASIS' OpenDocument Format, plus Adobe's PDF schema,  
> for its executive agencies' office suites by January 2007. This  
> policy has pitted those in favor of government mandates to meet  
> "larger considerations" against others in the industry who favor a  
> more market-oriented approach.

It's interesting that the state of Massachusetts sees PDF as "open."
There are relatively few tools to create it, and of these only one
or two are low-cost or no-cost. What's more, Adobe's Acrobat reader
-- which is both adware and nagware, if not spyware -- is virtually
the only reader available for the format which is compatible with
most documents. Were PDF truly open, there would be a much wider 
variety of choices.

--Brett Glass 



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