Talk:FOSS Open Standards/Comparison of File Formats

Matroska (MKV)
I don't really know much about video container formats, but it might be an idea to add Matroska (MKV). See http://matroska.org/ for details. Tom Morris (discuss • contribs) 22:59, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

Don't know much about Matroska either, but MKV should definitely be mentioned as a container. It's open, it works much better than AVI or MP4, and, at least in my opinion, is quickly becoming the de facto standard container for online video content due to its versatility and ease of use.

PDF openness?
I think that the paragraph below the table of Office Document Formats that talks about constraints on the pdf spec could be revised. I am not knowledgeable about this subject, but Citation 6 is from 2006 and is now somewhat dated because pdf was released as an ISO standard in 2008.

Wikipedia's article on the pdf format says: "While Adobe Systems made the PDF specification available free of charge in 1993, PDF remained a proprietary format, controlled by Adobe, until it was officially released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization as ISO 32000-1:2008.[3][4] In 2008, Adobe published a Public Patent License to ISO 32000-1 granting royalty-free rights for all patents owned by Adobe that are necessary to make, use, sell and distribute PDF compliant implementations.[5]"

From what I can see of Adobe's patent license for pdf patents, anyone is now free to use the patents as long as they don't claim pdf patents of their own.

Feel free to delete or edit this comment if the article is changed.108.72.108.21 (discuss) 07:13, 17 October 2012 (UTC)