Artifex Lawsuit Against Palm Pre | Linux Today

Artifex Lawsuit Against Palm Pre

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2009

“rtifex is the developer and copyright owner of muPDF, a
high-performance PDF rendering engine. Artifex is well-known as the
developer of the Ghostscript family of interpreters. muPDF is
Artifex’s lightweight PDF interpreter targeted at the PDA and ebook
markets. Palm improperly integrated muPDF in the Palm Pre’s “PDF
viewer” application without Artifex’s authorization. Palm’s
unauthorized copying of Artifex’s copyrighted muPDF is widespread,
as Palm has included “PDF viewer” in every Palm Pre unit shipped
since the product’s launch in June 2009.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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