Adobe, PDF, and competition (was: Re: [tex-live] Re: License of fonts included in X.org sources)
- To: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha@web.de>
- Cc: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>, debian-legal <debian-legal@lists.debian.org>, tex-live@tug.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Adobe, PDF, and competition (was: Re: [tex-live] Re: License of fonts included in X.org sources)
- From: Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:16:43 +1000
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On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 04:31:18AM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> When Sebastian presented pdftex at Adobe, they had been amazed that
> pdftex can do things they cannot do with their own tools (I suppose
> that Hans Hagen provided some files). This was years ago, but
> meanwhile Thanh provided many microtypographical extensions.
>
> If things evolve in the future as they did in the past, I suppose that
> pdftex is not good PR for Adobe, it's more likely that they regard
> pdftex as a competitor.
Please drop the debian-x CC on further musings about Adobe and PDF.
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