From keith.bierman@eng.sun.com Wed May 24 00:07:05 2000 Received: from mercury.Sun.COM (mercury.Sun.COM [192.9.25.1]) by dkuug.dk (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id AAA65517 for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 00:07:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from keith.bierman@eng.sun.com) Received: from engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM ([129.144.134.6]) by mercury.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA09540 for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:07:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from redherring.Eng.Sun.COM (redherring.Eng.Sun.COM [152.70.40.20]) by engmail4.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v1.7) with ESMTP id PAA12077; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.sun.com (heliopolis [152.70.1.39]) by redherring.Eng.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA15674; Tue, 23 May 2000 15:06:58 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Keith.Bierman@eng.sun.com Message-ID: <392B0103.9B9FC5FE@eng.sun.com> Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 15:06:59 -0700 From: "Keith Bierman (SunLabs)" Organization: Sun Microsystems Laboratories X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Craig T. Dedo" CC: WG5 Mailing List Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1812) Word or PDF for distributing WG5 documents References: <200005231759.TAA64849@dkuug.dk> <200005231832.UAA64980@dkuug.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Craig T. Dedo" wrote: > > Adobe's quoted price for the full Acrobat is $250. This is more than > enough money to buy a complete office suite from any of the major vendors as a > competitive upgrade. sounds like you are comparing street price of office suites to list price for acrobat. Local price isn't more than $80 (not that I'm particularly recommending it, postscript is fine by me ... better since I mostly use acroread to turn pdf files into postscript...) But I still don't get what the point of the discussion is. Is anyone proposing either: 1. a change to the way j3 and/or wg5 do their work? 2. a formal position to NCITS/ISO about what we'd like to see them accept and distribute If the answer is no, can we terminate the discussion? -- Keith H. Bierman keith.bierman@Sun.COM| khb@chiba.Eng.Sun.COM Sun Microsystems Laboratories | kbierman@acm.org 901 San Antonio Road UMTV 29-234 | k.bierman@computer.org Palo Alto, California 94303 | 650 336-2121 voice 650 336 0893 fax Copyright 2000