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Adobe Threatens Microsoft With Suit

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the waving-a-big-stick-around dept.

lseltzer writes "Adobe has threatened an antitrust suit against Microsoft, over PDF writing in Office 2007. Adobe wants Microsoft to separate the feature and charge extra for it. Microsoft has agreed to remove PDF writing, but won't charge extra." From the eWeek article: "In February, Adobe Chief Executive Bruce Chizen told Reuters he considered Microsoft to be the company's biggest concern. 'The competitor I worry about most is Microsoft,' Chizen said at the time. Adobe's PDF technology lets producers create and distribute documents digitally that retain designs, pictures and formatting. "

2 of 362 comments (clear)

  1. What about Apple and Mac OS X? by xirtam_work · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What about the "Print as PDF" feature that is native in Mac OS X?

    Much of Mac OS Xs' display technology (Quartz) is based upon PDF which grew out of "Display Postscript" on NeXTstep & Openstep.

  2. Isn't PDF an open standard ? by lord_rob+the+only+on · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't want to be a MS fanboy here but how comes Adobe can sue MS if they want to implement pdf output ? Does that mean that as a linux user I should stop writing so much pdf because some day Adobe can charge LaTeX team in order them to continue producing pdflatex ?