On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, at 12:29am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But I thought that most computers shipped with Acrobat. I know it's not a > default application in Windows distributions, but doesn't it come as one > of the packaged free programs that computer mftr's ship with their boxes > to pad their feature list?
Some do. There is no financial incentive to install it, so many (most?) don't bother. Adobe doesn't pay them anything, and the product is free, so the customers don't, either. MS Office and MS Works they can charge the customer for. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss