X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["431" "Wed" "16" "December" "1998" "10:31:22" "+0000" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "14" "Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "12" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA21541; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:15:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <5.B83BFA52@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:09:04 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 413356 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:09:00 +0100 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25984 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 13:08:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]; by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP; for ""; sender "s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk"; id LAA04766; hop 0; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 11:59:16 GMT Received: from srahtz (actually host srahtz.elsevier.co.uk) by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Dec 1998 12:07:30 +0000 X-Mailer: emacs 20.3.2 (via feedmail 9-beta-3 Q); VM 6.61 under Emacs 20.3.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <13938.39518.68424.927988@fell.open.ac.uk> <199812092035.VAA16014@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> <13941.7255.489674.140731@srahtz> Message-ID: <13943.35834.346967.222803@srahtz> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 10:31:22 +0000 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: pdf and ps portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3170 Hans Aberg writes: > Adobe is a commercial company; as far as I know, Knuth is not. > Knuth is an individual with a bank account, and income and deductions; Adobe is a corporate entity. "commercial" has no real meaning in this context > But otherwise, Knuth could probably do the same, ubless there is a contract > with the AMS prohibiting it. > good. then we agree that TeX is no more an open language than PDF? sebastian