Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!pegasus!richard From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Diatribe, revisited Message-ID: <1991May13.105631.23133@pegasus.com> Date: 13 May 91 10:56:31 GMT References: <1991May5.214431.27894@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu Lines: 18 >Tomas Rokicki posted some good ideas about test suites and PS preprocessors. >But I'd just like to point out that Adobe doesn't really need to have anything >to do with this. I mean, if someone were to write the code you mentioned and >make it public domain, it would get distributed, and used. I think the >problems are more rooted in ignorance than in lack of legislation. (That >applies to a lot of things, doesn't it? :-)) I don't buy this. Yes, ignorance is one of the big problems. But what if you buy a PostScript-producing program and it doesn't work right? If you were to verify that it doesn't pass Adobe's own tests, I'd think that that would be better grounds than just about anything else for demanding that they fix things. I think Tom has the right idea. -- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com