Alan Lord wrote: > Not necessarily, but the ownership of this specification is Microsoft's > and they have "previous form" (as we say in the UK)... This spec will > almost certainly be patent encumbered, and, as they have done frequently > in the past, will alter their shipped products features away from the > public specification so that document owners' become locked-in to > Microsoft's own software for continued access. And consequently they > no-longer really "own" their data, MS do.
Plus even if, for the sake of argument, it were on the level it is still a solution in search of a problem. However, licensing, lack of specs and other problems obviate the debate getting that far. PDF is not only widely used, but capable of being widely used. W -Lars --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
