Acrobat 3/4/Ghostscript/etc.

Ben Laurie ben at algroup.co.uk
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 20:56:11 +0100


david hendon wrote:
> 
> You can't win.  When I was looking after encryption policy at the DTI,
> Nigel and I put out on ukcrypto, five minutes after they had been issued in
> Parliament,  the actual files of the announcement that had gone to our
> Minister for approval (complete with the word draft on the top of the press
> release if I remember rightly) and the first posting in response was a
> whinge from someone objecting to us posting them as Word 6 files.  Sort of
> put me of bothering for a while after.

If you had posted them in Swahili people would have whinged, too. Is
there some problem with posting in a format that is not locked in to a
monopoly?

Cheers,

Ben.

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