Saturday, June 03, 2006

PDF Dispute from Adobe - Bogus

PDF is an open standard. Adobe has gone to great lengths to make it so, and many commercial products are out there that have PDF producing capabilities in them. Now for some reason Adobe wants to jump on the bandwagon and find something to sue Microsoft for, so they are suing over the inclusion of PDF capabilities in Office 2007. People love to bash Microsoft for trying to stifle competition, which is usually based on bogus claims. Now here is another big company trying to stifle Microsoft's ability to satisfy customer requirements because Microsoft is trying to provide a capability supported by many other companies. Why not sue every company out there that is already shipping products with this capability.

If you are going to be litigous, at least pick a decent argument. Come on Adobe, how about you spend your time creating superior PDF management programs instead of trying to sue the only company big enough to do it better than you. 





Saturday, June 03, 2006 12:37:15 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
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Saturday, June 03, 2006 6:04:02 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
I really hope that the XPS format renders PDF a useless case in history. This I agree is ridiculous and unethical on Adobe's part.
Saturday, June 03, 2006 7:07:54 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)
Unfortunately the suit includes XPS, and Microsoft is already planning on removing both capabilities from Office 2007. They will be available as add-ons, but will not ship with the product.
Brian
Monday, June 05, 2006 11:57:45 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

No worries, Adobe is just exerting their power over the software market by allowing a portion of the market to create, market and sell software that includes PDF export functionality but strongholding other portions of the market to not include that functionality with threat of litigation.

err.. wait... don't we have laws against that?
Sean McLellan
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