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[News] Proprietary Model Loses on PDF

Another loss for the proprietary model

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| Reports that Microsoft and Adobe are breaking out the lawyers over the
| PDF format is being spun in many ways. As an antitrust battle. As a
| feature battle.
| 
| Is Microsoft trying to run down Adobe? Is Adobe being too close with
| PDF?
| 
| But one piece of spin seems incontrovertible. It's another loss for
| the proprietary business model.
| 
| This sort of thing just does not happen in open source. When file formats
| are open source, any other project who offers support for it is offering
| just that -- support.
| 
| When money and market share aren't at issue, cooperation becomes assumed.
| If everyone in the open source world is using the same file format that's
| not a monopoly -- it's a standard.
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                        http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=671

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