Microsoft vs. Adobe: Fight over PDF Rights
PDF at Center of Microsoft vs. Adobe
Adobe wants Microsoft Office users to pay a separate fee for the "save as
PDF" capability that is currently embedded in the beta version of Office 2007.
Microsoft wants to offer the feature for free. Apparently, it's a deal breaker —
despite the fact that Adobe has positioned its Portable Document Format as an
open standard in the past. It looks like Microsoft could pull PDF support from
the final version of Office rather than face yet another legal battle. Some
pundits wonder why Adobe is gunning for a head-on battle with Microsoft and
suggest that a better route may have been to provide limited PDF capability in
Office. After four months of negotiations between the two sides broke down,
Adobe appears ready to file an antitrust suit in Europe. A Burton Group analyst
says "it's perplexing" that Adobe will allow others to publish PDF but not
Microsoft.
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