Re:PDF Files arn't easily modifiable... until....
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Microsoft takes on PDF
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"As a businessman, I'll pay just about any price MS wants, because that guarenteed interoperability is of value to me, and I know they won't charge me more than I could afford."...
... Until they simply decide it's in their (x-y-z) best interest to simply, say, raise the price of their products 100%! And they will always have a good (public) reason. In the back room, they're just interested in flooding the market with their SW and make sure it closes every other company. It's paranoid, I know... but if we're not careful, we'll end up with their knife up our throat, and we'll have nothing "else" to rely on... because we would have let them win, by not insisting on questionning the validity of their concern about SW development. IF we allow those companie$ (and not just M$), they can "buy" their way to monopoly and once established firmly, well... bye bye freedom of choice, see you in the next eon or two!
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"As a businessman, I'll pay just about any price MS wants, because that guarenteed interoperability is of value to me, and I know they won't charge me more than I could afford." ...
... Until they simply decide it's in their (x-y-z) best interest to simply, say, raise the price of their products 100%! And they will always have a good (public) reason. In the back room, they're just interested in flooding the market with their SW and make sure it closes every other company. It's paranoid, I know... but if we're not careful, we'll end up with their knife up our throat, and we'll have nothing "else" to rely on... because we would have let them win, by not insisting on questionning the validity of their concern about SW development. IF we allow those companie$ (and not just M$), they can "buy" their way to monopoly and once established firmly, well... bye bye freedom of choice, see you in the next eon or two!