Re: Player Pro and Packages
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- Subject: [mg88014] Re: Player Pro and Packages
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:25:46 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 21, 2:38 pm, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <fuhr0n$ri... at smc.vnet.net>, > Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gull... at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > From the Adobe Developer Connection website: > > > "The PDF specification was first published when Adobe Acrobat was > > introduced in 1993. Since then, updated versions of the PDF Reference > > have been made available from Adobe via the Web. A significant number of= > > developers and systems integrators offer customized enhancements and > > extensions to Adobe's core family of products. Adobe publishes the PDF > > specification to foster the creation of an ecosystem around the PDF > > format. The PDF Reference provides a description of the Portable > > Document Format and is intended for application developers wishing to > > develop applications that create PDF files directly, as well as read or > > modify PDF document content." > > >http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html > > > (Note that this is why open source as well as non-Adobe commercial > > software can legally read and create, and even add goodies to, PDF > > files. To name a few: OpenOffice, PDFCreator, Mac OS X, ...) > > Thanks much for this. Seems to me that Wolfram, and those thinking of > Mathematica notebooks as a widespread publication or communication > format, should seriously ponder the middle sentence > > "Adobe publishes the PDF specification to foster the creation of an= > ecosystem around the PDF format." > > --- an ecosystem, note, which does not directly require anyone, authors > OR readers, to purchase any Adobe products. Perhaps I am missing something here... but the notebook specification is fully published by Wolfram. Also, Mathematica Player is free... it is only the intermediate product that has a cost associated with it. Perhaps the question is whether it is permitted to write a competitor to Player... that of course is a different intellectual property question. --David
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- Re: Player Pro and Packages