Martin S.'s Journal: Rant on PDF’s

I don't get why PDF's are becoming so popular, even amongst open source geeks, increasingly every other document on he net seems to be a pdf, yet it's a sub-standard format and its use is illogical. It's an anachronism, representing the complete worst aspects of everything we supposedly strive against with open source and free software.

1) PDF's is a closed proprietary standard.
2) PDF's file format is substandard, using RLE for compression for f* s*?
3) The viewers seem are unreliable on all platforms because of the buffer-overflows issues.
4) The PDF buffer-overflows problem represents a theoretical exploit / security threat to machines.
5) PDF Documents are useless for searching.
6) Dmitry Sklyarov.

So this is my call to drop PDF and start using open standard alternatives. There is plenty of choice of more open, more portable, more reliable,better conceived and implemented options. html & XML, png, tiff, even postscript, but not PDF.