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However, we are in a time in which proprietary, short duration, lifecycle insensitive formats are doing quite well because of the ease of downloading the updates to the already installed players. Macromedia 3D is an example where even given the lack of content or vision, there are reports of 300,000 downloads a day. The experience with PAS specs and Adobe PDF in particular is that the company does NOT guarantee upward compatibility of data between versions. PDF content typically breaks between major releases. The lessons of the past are lost on those who did not experience them first hand. That includes the majority of the web users who seldom if ever create information much less maintain it. That puts the developer in the middle because the Adobe's of the world go straight to the consumer. As to American politics, they are playing an old showtune at the White House these days: "Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down..." Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: David Brownell [mailto:david-b@p...] > The best approach is clean, simple, open standards. And un-encumbered ... no patents, no NDAs, no consortium licenses.
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