At 10:31 +0000 1998/12/16, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>Knuth is an individual with a bank account, and income and deductions;
>Adobe is a corporate entity. "commercial" has no real meaning in this
>context

I thought you indicated the real meaning of "commercial" in this context...

> > But otherwise, Knuth could probably do the same, ubless there is a contract
> > with the AMS prohibiting it.
> >
>good. then we agree that TeX is no more an open language than PDF?

The problem with TeX is of course that Knuths sits on the copyright, and
nothing happens...

Otherwise, I think it is great that Acrobat Reader and part of use of PDF
are for free -- I wrote to an Adobe executive in the days they were not and
told him they would make more money that by changing that, and he responded
that is was a great idea, and after that they changed it.

  Hans Aberg
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