Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 13:34:30 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: "Gary W. Swearingen" <underway@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster Message-ID: <20030903173430.GA14686@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <2xr82xlu07.82x@mail.comcast.net>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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. Yes and no. For xpdf's take on it, see http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/cracking.html > Does Adobe think > its developers and/or users copyright infringers under the DMCA? Haven't you heard of the Sklyarov case? Google for it, see in particular the EFF site. http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/US_v_Elcomsoft/us_v_sklyarov_faq.html Rahul
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