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From: david@indetech.com (David Kuder x2003)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: rms says...
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.000420.5283@indetech.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 00:04:20 GMT
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Reply-To: david@indetech.COM (David Kuder x2003)
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In article <43377@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
>I *do* object to software like ghostscript and GNU Smalltalk. Adobe
>spent mucho bucks coming up with a language that is flexible and fairly
>easy to implement efficiently. XEROX PARC spent literally decades
>working Smalltalk into a useful and easy to use package.  FSF takes
>their entire design, recodes it, and then sells it as their own.  I
>think this is wrong.

In article <1991Feb1.034801.24207@Think.COM> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
#As for Smalltalk, from the very beginning Xerox has been *promoting*
#independent implementations.  They have published books containing papers
#by third parties, explaining various implementation strategies, for the
#express purpose of allowing others to make use of these ideas and build
#upon them.

And, last I heard, PostScript level 1 was "freed".  There is a level 2
of course, but level 1 shouldn't cause any problems.

-- 
David A. Kuder              Looking for enough time to get past patchlevel 1
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