AcrobatReader: A bug or intentionally?

[Sarah Hobbs]

Check the licencing on the adobe site - when i looked, I think i found 
that you needed a licence/agreement to actually distribute it, in almost 
all countries.

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Art Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007 08:04, Mark Wallace wrote:
>> I was under the impression that there was a policy within Ubuntu to give
>> preferences to pure bred Linux programs over proprietary Windows programs
>> with Linux editions.
> 
> Acrobat was always intended to be multi-platform.  That was the point.  
> Acrobat documents were supposed to display identically on Unix, Mac and 
> Windows.  The business plan was to give away the reader so as to boost 
> potential readers of Acrobat "publishers'.  The PDF creation software is 
> where the money is made.  There have always been Acrobat "Distillers" 
> and "Editor" for Mac and Windows.  There used to be a Unix Distiller/Editor 
> which was discontinued with Acrobat version 3.  There may still be a large 
> scale publishing application for Unix.
> 
> The people at Adobe used to hate it when people called Acrobat, simply Adobe, 
> it being only one of many Adobe products.  A couple of years ago, they 
> surrendered and renamed The Acrobat Reader, The Adobe Reader.  
> 
> Some like chocolate, others vanilla.  I like Synaptic better than Adept, and I 
> like Acrobat better than kpdf.
>