Four Points of Interoperability and Adobe

Posted by Andy_Updegrove on Jun 4, 2006 9:23 AM EDT
ConsortiumInfo.org Standards Blog; By Andy Updegrove
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Recently, spokespersons for Microsoft's standards group have been promoting "design, collaboration and licensing" as alternatives, rather than supplements to, open standards. Maybe Adobe's been listening.

There's an important difference between an open standard and any of these ad hoc arrangements among companies, however, and that is the fact that with a standard, everybody knows that they can get what everybody else can get, and on substantially the same terms. With a de facto standard, that's not the case - as Microsoft itself found out last week when Adobe refused to offer the same deal that Apple enjoys.

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