From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 09:24:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D37A516A4BF for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:24:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05C6443FDD for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: from localhost.localdomain (12-230-74-101.client.attbi.com[12.230.74.101](untrusted sender)) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003090316243101500mh6e5e>; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 16:24:31 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h83GP24d072851; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:25:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h83GOunO072850; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from underway@comcast.net) To: Terry Lambert References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030901205127.0337b270@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030901203824.0337c920@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030901205127.0337b270@localhost> <3F553FBF.1010208@potentialtech.com> <3F55A19C.73A1614D@mindspring.com> From: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:24:56 -0700 In-Reply-To: <3F55A19C.73A1614D@mindspring.com> (Terry Lambert's message of "Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:09:00 -0700") Message-ID: <2xr82xlu07.82x@mail.comcast.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 16:24:32 -0000 Terry Lambert writes: > Adobe gives away only the viewer. They sell the creation tool, > and they do not give away source code to the viewer. They guard > the file format and third party tools via vigorous enforcement > practices utilizing all tools at their disposal, including the > DMCA. Please explain further. I thought that PDF was a sort of PostScript-ng, with an unobfuscated (or even documented) file format. I guess I formed that opinion based on the ability of Ghostscript to print and view PDF files. Is it based on reverse engineering PDF files? Do PDF files contain IP protection features? Does Adobe think its developers and/or users copyright infringers under the DMCA?