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Another Example of Design by Legals
Microsoft shows itself to be a law firm with this move. As I understand it PDF is an open document format that US tax payers paid Adobe to develop. Hence, at least for US tax payers, it is a pre-paid item.

Adobe must have negotiated with the US federal governement for out of country sales which Microsoft is desirous of. The notion that PDF is free out of country is a poor one because this is US property not unlike military technology that the US government paid Boeing for and does not allow to be used in craft sold to none US firms.

There are two parties that Microsoft has to deal with involving PDF. Adobe is likely the least of its problems and as far as the US government is concerned, I do not think the free add in will satisfy unless some kind of anti-piracy feature is effective. A company run by rational men and woman would cut the deal with Adobe/US goverment and pay the piper. This certainly isn't in the best interests of consumers.
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Thanks Adobe for screwing with one  Boot_Agnostic | 09/12/06
Wa Wa Wa What?  BitTwiddler | 09/12/06
Is that soundbite correctly spelled  Boot_Agnostic | 09/12/06
no need for M$ office anyways  Linux Geek | 09/12/06
Or StarOffice, Corel, Lotus Smartsuite  Boot_Agnostic | 09/12/06
Print driver conversion is much better  Prognosticator | 09/12/06
MS already has print to file convertion...  JoeMama_z | 09/12/06
Adobe was upset?  tommyhobbes | 09/12/06
Then here is a refresher  Confused by religion | 09/12/06
You can do this already with other free apps  astrogeek | 09/12/06
Another Example of Design by Legals  mighetto | 09/12/06
Uh... Several Open Source  Linux User 147560 | 09/12/06
Adobe seems fine with it for those  Boot_Agnostic | 09/12/06
Cross platform PDF printers  ibabadur1 | 09/12/06
Heck, never mind individual applications....  Michael Kelly | 09/12/06
But few vertical applications  TerryNT | 09/12/06
PDF reDirect may be the solution  TerryNT | 09/12/06
Safari  trm1945 | 09/12/06
Isn't it pathetic...  artifice | 09/12/06
Quit the OS Wars in these Forums  TerryNT | 09/13/06
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.  bdoserr | 09/13/06
OSS is a new day and a new market model  Boot_Agnostic | 09/13/06
I wouldn't Want it anyway wink  Aaron A Baker | 09/15/06
Adobe works okay?  JB Tucson | 09/20/06
Standard part of any app in OS X  Resuna | 10/13/06

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