At 01:14 PM 5/14/98 -0400, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Not ASCII text. Not HTML. >Not even PDF -- but Word, a proprietary format licensed by a single company. > >Repeated applications of the clue-by-four to their webmeisters don't >seem to have gotten the point through their skulls that the web >*was invented because of the proprietary formats* and exists primarily >to render them superfluous. > >So you're quite right: every public document that governments generate >should be online: it's easy, it's cheap, it's fast. But the entrenched >methods of decades (or centuries) are hard to shake. Please don't take this as a flame...but as far as I know PDF is a proprietary format too. Adobe owns the rights to the "distiller" that writes "Portable Data Format" files in Acrobat, and distributes the only reader in Acrobat reader. If there are others, especially cheaper others, I'd love to know. Wynne Eden Americus, GA USA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 14 1998 - 20:46:48 PDT
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