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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: New MAC systems.
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Date: 17 Oct 90 22:38:32 GMT
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In <6823@sugar.hackercorp.com>, peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1990Oct16.200318.28393@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>> beautiful.  The only thing that is comparable is Open Look and
>> NeWS.
>
>Open Look? Barf.
>
>Open Look is just a style guide. It does nothing to solve the programming
>problem. NeWS is dead: Sun just plain dropped the ball by being greedy: if
>they'd given it away they'd have a home-team advantage now. What's the
>status of Display Postscript (the NeWS lookalike NeXT uses)?

If they gave it away? Let's see, the full spec was published and available, and
folks were encouraged to write their own implementations. Sun's source code was
available at a reasonable price (don't recall numbers), and you could buy NeWS
for the Sun for about $150 (that's in Northern Pesos, so US price was less).
That $150 bought you the Media, software, extensive docs, and 'right to use'
license. Greedy? Hardly.

-larry

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