Comments on: Adobe Bullying Microsoft Over PDF Use http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/adobe-bullying-microsoft-over-pdf-use Ubuntuness is next to Godliness Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:54:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: stuart http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/adobe-bullying-microsoft-over-pdf-use/comment-page-1#comment-10 stuart Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:20:34 +0000 http://www.randyjensenonline.com/blog/?p=27#comment-10 The issue will probably revolve around the implementation of the Lempel Ziv Welsch algorithm used in both pdf and gif as a compression algorithm. This is not open source and owned by compuserve i believe, I would guess that MS aren't paying the proper royalties to adobe for it's implementation of the algorithm. there is a distinct between free viewer software and open source... The issue will probably revolve around the implementation of the Lempel Ziv Welsch algorithm used in both pdf and gif as a compression algorithm. This is not open source and owned by compuserve i believe, I would guess that MS aren’t paying the proper royalties to adobe for it’s implementation of the algorithm.

there is a distinct between free viewer software and open source…

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