AcrobatReader: A bug or intentionally?

[Mark Wallace]

All that means is that it isn't GPL.  They distribute it themselves and it's 
available for Kubuntu users via  at least one of the package downloaders.  I 
have it installed.  But the other PDF readers do seem to work flawlessly and 
are GPL.  If you are used to it, why should you have to give it up on the 
grounds that you like Linux?  I thought trying to limit your choices was the 
Microsoft way of thinking, not Linux's.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sarah Hobbs" <hobbsee at kubuntu.org>
To: "Kubuntu Help and User Discussions" <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:19 AM
Subject: Re: AcrobatReader: A bug or intentionally?


> 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.
>
> Hobbsee
>
> 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.
>>
>
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