Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Basec Interpreters?
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.173733.14781@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <34733@cup.portal.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 17:37:33 GMT

In article <34733@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes:
>With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters
>for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like
>Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of
>their own...

One reason why they might legitimately hesitate to do this is the copying
problem.  There are great practical advantages to selling interpreters
that are imbedded in a piece of hardware, because it makes them much
more difficult to pirate.
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