[wplug] Re: MISM mentor program

[Henry Umansky]

PDF is a standard NOT owned by Adobe.

--On Monday, February 10, 2003 7:53 AM -0500 Russ Schneider 
<russpgh at stargate.net> wrote:r

>
>
> Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
>
>> PPPS: For further reasons why .doc should not be the format of choice
>> when exchanging information electronically, I invite you to read
>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>> It may be long, but it certainly exposes the compromises both you, as
>> the sender, and I, as the receiver, are making by exchanging Microsoft
>> Word documents.
>
> You know, as I read the webpage above, I was struck by the "suggested
> alternatives" it mentioned, namely HTML and PDF.  I would have thought
> the logical alternative would have been Rich Text Format.  From what I
> know, .rtf files open on just about any word processor, and I don't
> believe it proprietary (although I could be wrong, but PDF is owned by
> Adobe, isn't it?).
>
>
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Henry Umansky
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