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>>My hope is that Adobe will find a way to offer this capability to their Reader users >>at an economically affordable cost > > The real question remains - where does the cost model go...Should the creator > of the form pay the $$ or the user of the form? The user. Most always. Spread the cost to those that need it. > If the former, how would Adobe see revenue on a form with wide (unlimited) > distribution? If the latter, would you be willing to put your credit card number > into Acrobat each time you found a form you wanted to fill out? Each time? No. One time purchase of the ability to fill out this form and Save it. And then I've then purchased the right to do the next form. They could sell Approval on an as needed basis. You really need it once, buy it at that moment, then have it forever. > And that, in my understanding, is where the issue are. They are social, not > technical ones... > >>--preferably <before> they get supplanted by an open source solution rather than in >>reaction to one. > > As I said, it won't/can't happen...(not that it shouldn't, but that it can't) > At least not as long as the developers of said project are willing to say on the > good side of the legal system. And this is where I feel it should be obligated to share and allow others to work with this industry standard format. Else we have a monopoly and that ain't right. -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Robert Ameeti My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. - Edmond Rostand <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
