> Apple's involvement was particularly egregious: they threatened to destroy adobe with spurious patent litigation unless they participated. My impression (fro

> Apple's involvement was particularly egregious: they threatened to destroy adobe with spurious patent litigation unless they participated. My impression (from the emails that were quoted in the news at the time) was that Steve Jobs was the driving force behind it. All the other participants seemed to just go along with it. Still wrong, but I doubt it would have happened without Jobs pushing it.