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Paul Prescod writes: > But when the standard comes too late, a proprietary "de jure" > standard may have an unassailable position in the marketplace. (For "de jure", I'm reading "de facto".) People and organizations are always trying to cut the cost of doing business. If the de-facto standard is reasonably efficient, well documented and royalty-free, like PDF (as an intermediate print-to format), it may survive; otherwise, market forces will kill it eventually. All the best, David -- David Megginson, david@m..., http://www.megginson.com/
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