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OpenXPS – open standard for a page description language and a fixed-document format; PDF started as a proprietary standard. PDF version 1.7 was standardized as ISO 32000-1 [8] in 2008. However, some technologies indispensable for the full implementation of ISO 32000-1 are defined only by Adobe and remain proprietary (e.g. Adobe XML Forms ...
PDF was a proprietary format controlled by Adobe until it was released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008, [7] [8] at which time control of the specification passed to an ISO Committee of volunteer industry experts.
History of PDF. The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe Systems, introduced at the Windows and OS/2 Conference in January 1993 and remained a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard in 2008. Since then, it has been under the control of an International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committee of ...
Open standard. An open standard is a standard that is openly accessible and usable by anyone. It is also a common prerequisite that open standards use an open license that provides for extensibility. Typically, anybody can participate in their development due to their inherently open nature.
A proprietary application programming interface (API) is a software library interface "specific to one device or, more likely to a number of devices within a particular manufacturer's product range." [53] The motivation for using a proprietary API can be vendor lock-in or because standard APIs do not support the device's functionality. [53]
A proprietary file format is a file format of a company, organization, or individual that contains data that is ordered and stored according to a particular encoding-scheme, designed by the company or organization to be secret, such that the decoding and interpretation of this stored data is easily accomplished only with particular software or hardware that the company itself has developed.
The Venturi Transport Protocol (VTP) is a patented proprietary protocol [3] that is designed to replace TCP transparently in order to overcome perceived inefficiencies related to wireless data transport. Microsoft Exchange Server protocols are proprietary [4] open access protocols. The rights to develop and release protocols are held by ...
More than 90 percent of companies use open-source software as a component of their proprietary software. [70] The decision to use open-source software, or even engage with open-source projects to improve existing open-source software, is typically a pragmatic business decision.