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 * Email: Hans Aberg <mailto:[log in to unmask]> * Home Page: <http://www.matematik.su.se/~haberg/> * AMS member listing: <http://www.ams.org/cml/>