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Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the going-legit dept.

Flying Wallenda writes "Did Adobe make a tactical blunder when it complained to the European Union about Microsoft including support for its XML Paper Specification (XPS) in Windows Vista and Office 2007? Now that Microsoft has decided to submit its 'PDF killer' to a standards-setting organization, Adobe may be regretting its decision. 'Microsoft is looking again at its license in order to make it compatible with open source licenses, which means that the "covenant not to sue" will likely be extended to cover any intellectual property dispute stemming from the simple use or incorporation of XPS. The end result is that using XPS may be considerably more attractive for developers now that the EU has apparently expressed concerns over the license.'"

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  1. Re:Word Dilution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fresh from Hans Reiser's hard drive, yo!

  2. I had to think for a few about this title by vitalyb · · Score: 5, Funny

    A dead human acrobat submitted his body?
    Someone killed a human acrobat and submitted his body?
    The murderer was submitted to some kind of law-enforcement?

    That is late at night here, however.

  3. ECMA is warming up their rubber stamp by Wesley+Felter · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, it worked great for .NET.

  4. Re:About 6 years ago... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 2, Funny
    would it be too much to ask that you use hyphens on "as-standard-a-form-as-ASCII-is-today?" You've gotta be thinking about other people reading your english and getting confused. I personally had no idea what you were writing and had to go back and re-read it.

    Yes. Yes-it-would-be too-much-to-ask.
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  5. Dick Grayson by Kenshin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Someone better tell Dick Grayson (Batman's former Robin) about this acrobat killer. It may be the one that killed his parents.

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  6. Re:Word Dilution by BoberFett · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not a murderer, your honor. I simply removed the occupant of that home so a newer, more functional citizen can occupy that dwelling.

  7. Acrobat-killer Submitted to Standards Body by SFSouthpaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    for filing a false report.

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  8. Re:PDF is too complicated by alx5000 · · Score: 2, Funny
    how about htmldoc takes a bunch of html files creates a pdf with hyperlinks in it. along with html help workshop from ms its quite easy to go from chm to html to pdf
    Was that a lesson for the GP on why English can be way more complicated than PDF?
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  9. Re:In all fairness... by CastrTroy · · Score: 2, Funny

    I would like to recommend against trying to use sliced bread as a programming language.

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  10. Re:In all fairness... by pilkul · · Score: 3, Funny

    On the contrary, sliced bread makes an excellent stack-oriented language. One just needs to be careful to butter each slice on the correct side.

  11. Re:Word Dilution by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's literally out of control!

  12. Re:Word Dilution by infolib · · Score: 2, Funny

    In Denmark the Conservative and the Liberal Party are both right wing parties. They currently form the government together.

    The name of the liberal party is "Venstre" meaning "left". Go figure.

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