Subj : Re: How much should I charge for fixed-price software contract? To : comp.programming From : Richard Heathfield Date : Fri Aug 19 2005 03:34 pm Gerry Quinn wrote: > In article , > invalid@address.co.uk.invalid says... >> Randy Howard wrote: >> >> > I am always amazed at how completely you abhor PDF files, but I >> > can't recall exactly why. >> >> For one thing, I don't like the idea of promulgating an Adobe format, >> given Adobe's shameful treatment of Dmitri Sklyarov a few years ago. >> (Pace, Gerry Q; I know you have a different opinion - I am merely >> explaining my stance.) > > I trust that you have never been inconvenienced by users of other fine > Elcomsoft products such as 'Advanced Email Extractor", "Advanced Direct > Remailer", and "Advanced NT Security Explorer". Are these more examples of Russian software being produced in Russia by Russian nationals under Russian law? > If you had been, you might be a little less indignant at the fact of > Sklyarov being sued for his part in the production and sale in the US > of "Advanced eBook Processor". If he broke American copyright law (and that's very much in doubt, since the program he wrote was written in Russia under Russian law, not in the USA under USA law), then by all means let Adobe sue him, and let a judge decide whether he has broken US law /whilst on US soil/. But Adobe had him /imprisoned/. That's a very different matter indeed. -- Richard Heathfield "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999 http://www.cpax.org.uk mail: rjh at above domain .