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On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 10:31:22AM +0000, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:

> good. then we agree that TeX is no more an open language than PDF?

In theory maybe;
but Knuth is a saint, while Adobe is run by mere mortals.

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