Wow, u just hit the nail on the head...read my mind. Joey. ______________________________________________________
Sent from Joey's iPhone 3G 2.1 on AT&T's all-new wireless network. Visit www.apple.com/iphone for more information. Apple & AT&T - Raising the Bar. On Dec 9, 2008, at 7:03 PM, "James E. Therrault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Ralph wrote: >> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 08:39 -0700, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Dec 8, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Ralph wrote: >>> >>> >>>> There are Intel documents describing the architecture, but they are >>>> pdfs and I dislike pointing to proprietary format files. >>> >>> So what problem do you have with PDF's, they're an open, public >>> format. >>> >> >> Not really. I will give Adobe credit for honestly documenting the >> format. That puts them way ahead of what Microsoft did with >> ooxml. The >> PDF format has been documented for a long time and version 1.7 has >> become an ISO standard. Up until version 1.7, it was always a >> proprietary, openly documented format. But, it was still >> proprietary, >> with only Adobe controlling the format. I'll see how the ISO 32000 >> format works out. If it is widely adopted, I will be more open to >> pointing to those documents. As of now, most PDFs on the web are not >> version 1.7. I don't want to take the chance that some PDF I would >> point to would only open in the Adobe product. In that case, I >> would be >> indirectly suggesting that someone install the Adobe PDF reader. The >> license for the Adobe PDF reader is objectionable and I would not >> want >> to spread its adoption. >> > > > This logic is akin to someone attempting to swim upstream through > Niagara Falls... > > JT > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
