Digital BW, The Print

Alright this is getting pathetic already.  Without the expectation of
adequate returns, direct or indirect, a for-profit company will not and
should not invest capital, monetary or human.  Do you long for some sort of
Utopia where everyone works for some mystic common good and everyone else
magically pulls their weight also?  Of course Adobe has an expectation that
setting a common standard will create a platform for opportunity.  Take some
time out, read Atlas Shrugged and get off the can.  If the standards
proposed are good they will be adopted.  If Adobe is able to exert an
influence through product leadership that means the standards get adopted
then good on them.  If the standards proposed by Adobe are of no value then
they will not be adopted by manufacturers or they will be amended until they
are.

Please - back to B&W printing...


> From: "Anthony G. Atkielski" <anthony@...>
> Reply-To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:34:32 +0200
> To: Hans Van Rafelghem <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: New Adobe RAW plugin released
> 
> Hans Van Rafelghem writes:
> 
>> I didn't hear anybody complain about Forgent Networks patent claims for
>> using JPEG.
>> Sony, Macromedia and Adobe already had to pay enormous amounts of money
>> for the use of JPEG.
> 
> And they did that without complaint?
> 
>