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Question: What does this mean for Adobe? Were they earning money by not relinquishing control, or what?

• ROFISH 18y ago
  Adobe's been opening the PDF for awhile. Basic specs have been free for all for awhile. Considering the fact that PDF printing is available as a "value-added" feature in both Office and OS X, this is pretty much the next big step for them.
  • Hexstream 18y ago
    If they don't open up, experience says a new open standard will eat their lunch. Might as well push ahead of the wave (or whatever the proper idiom is).
    • etal 18y ago
      Or a pseudo-open one -- Microsoft's XPS format has had some push and was submitted to ECMA not too long ago.