On Wed, 19 Mar 1997, Marie-Laure Bouchet wrote:
> At a U.K. Serials Group Meeting, I asked a couple of representatives of
> a publishers what they would do if Adobe were to start charging for
> Acrobat Viewers. They replied that Adobe wouldn't do it as it would get
> everyone's backs up.
> It seems a rather precarious situation to be in, so I presume they are
> working on something for the long run?
I would be a bit tricky to charge for the PDF viewers that are already in
use. So Adobe could only charge for new versions of the viewers and these
would need to have significant functionality enhancement for people to
want to ditch their existing free browsers. Plus there's the growing
number of free browsers (xpdf for example).
Tatty bye,
Jim'll
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