Re: update flash
On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:32:09 +0100
Slavko <linux@slavino.sk> wrote:
> Ahoj,
>
> Dňa Sun, 19 Jan 2014 08:24:14 -0500 Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> napísal:
>
> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:37:36 -0700
> > Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > But yes it is hard to avoid proprietary protocols. Tax forms are in
> > > PDF. Videos are in Flash, or worse Silverlight. Audio files are in
> >
> > I think we've discussed this before, but is it really correct to call
> > PDF a proprietary protocol? I know that full implementation of the
> > spec is not present in the various FLOSS applications, but my
> > understanding (a quick search of the web yields inconclusive results)
> > is that the spec is publicly available and usable without any
> > significant restrictions.
>
> By me knowledge, the PDF is proprietary, the PDF/A is public.
I don't have a deep understanding of these things, but it seems that
full-function PDF 1.7 has been approved as ISO standard ISO
32000-1:2008, which seems to make it pretty open. There are also,
apparently, proprietary extensions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Standardization
> Slavko
> http://slavino.sk
Celejar
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