Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!petrilli From: petrilli@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: A laptop NeXT + FSF NeXTstep Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 22:47:17 GMT References: <282AE226.3250@deneva.sdd.trw.com> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation Lines: 24 In-reply-to: thomsen@spf.trw.com's message of 10 May 91 18:10:46 GMT In article <282AE226.3250@deneva.sdd.trw.com> thomsen@spf.trw.com (Mark R. Thomsen) writes: NeXT give NeXTstep to FSF? This would be a wonderful, weird thing. How likely is this? NeXTstep is one of the technologies that NeXT has invested in that is superior to competition. It gives them a difference that is valuable to users. Giving such away would be a complex decision, I imagine, for NeXT. I would think the same thing, but when I spoke with someone from NeXT informally at a demo here at the University, the NeXT rep said the only stumbling block is Display Postscript. Ghostscript has 90% of the functionality and it wouldn't be hard to extend. It even handles Type 1 fonts as I recall. As to whether they would do it... if we had Ghostscript up and going 100%, I'de say it'de be a 50/50 chance. Chris Remember, tehy have already given teh FSF Objective-C, and have placed NetInfo out for public consumption. -- + Chris Petrilli | Internet: petrilli@gnu.ai.mit.edu + Insert silly disclaimer drivel here.