PostScript - Re: Speaking of companies that know how to write excellent

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Re: Speaking of companies that know how to write excellent

Kelsey Bjarnason

2007-10-29, 7:09 pm

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:16:09 +0000, chicks wrote:

> Ironic, isn't it, that Adobe's (and many other companies') products
> couldn't exist without a large number of open-source libraries for
> things like compression, encryption and image encoding/decoding, many
> of them written by those 'linux boys'. Adobe Reader used to display
> the licenses for those libraries under Help/About. I notice they've
> somehow gotten around the GPL requirement to display them now.

Well, it's possible they've redeveloped their own, but yeah, it is amusing
to see this sort of thing when it happens.

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