TriNetre - Archive for April 20, 2004

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A very interesting Wharton interview with Bruce Chizen:

With PostScript and PDF we found that publishing the specifications, making them open -- but not open standards, but not providing open source -- is the right path for us. Once something becomes a standard driven by a standards body, it moves at a glacial pace. And innovation slows down significantly, because you have to get everybody to agree, and there's lots of compromise. If you make it totally open source, you don't get a return on investment.
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Today many customers still think of us as a graphics company. Some think of us as the Photoshop company, and some as the Acrobat company. Five years from now we'll probably be thought of as the enterprise company...