[eviks]

Hey, they did all the work and more, trust them!!!

> Experts in the PDF Association’s PDF TWG undertook theoretical and experimental analysis of these schemes, reviewing decompression speed, compression speed, compression ratio achieved, memory usage, code size, standardisation, IP, interoperability, prototyping, sample file creation, and other due diligence tasks.

[LoganDark]

I love when I perform all the due diligence tasks. You just can't counter that. Yes but, they did all the due diligence tasks. They considered all the factors. Every one. Think you have one they didn't consider? Nope.

[jsnell]

But they didn't write "all". They wrote "other", which absolutely does not imply full coverage.

Maybe read things a bit more carefully before going all out on the snide comments?

[LoganDark]

It implies potential coverage of anything one could bring up. It creates a similar impression in my mind, because it becomes easy to claim you already considered something.

[wizzwizz4]

In fact, they wrote "reviewing […] other due diligence tasks", which doesn't imply any coverage! This close, literal reading is an appropriate – nay, the only appropriate – way to draw conclusions about the degree of responsibility exhibited by the custodians of a living standard. By corollary, any criticism of this form could be rebuffed by appeal to a sufficiently-carefully-written press release.