Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Base Interpreters?
Message-ID: <1990Oct24.170502.22224@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <34733@cup.portal.com> <1990Oct11.173733.14781@zoo.toronto.edu> <14508@vdsvax.crd.ge.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 90 17:05:02 GMT

In article <14508@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes:
>|... 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.
>
>I don't *quite* buy this argument. Adobe sells software anyway. (e.g.
>ATM. Illustrator.) 

I don't think software sales produce more than a tiny fraction of Adobe's
income; indeed, one can debate whether the software's role is to make
money directly or merely to encourage use of PostScript.  The big bucks
are in all those "genuine Adobe" imbedded interpreters.
-- 
The type syntax for C is essentially   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
unparsable.             --Rob Pike     |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry