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From: jvs@micas.UUCP (Jo stockley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.misc
Subject: PostScript standard?
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 12:33:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: micas.535
Posted: Wed Sep 23 12:33:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:06:04 EDT
Organization: Nodecrest Ltd., Byfleet, England
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A simple question.

It appears to me that Postscript is owned by Adobe Inc. It also seems that to
implement PostScript one needs a license from Adobe. It further appears that
said license costs a hell of a lot (circa 100,000 dollars) of ackers.
All this being the case how does anybody expect PostScript to become any sort
of standard. Why not bite the bullet and place it in the public domain free of
any charge. If it has any future people will jump at the chance to get it.
It's no good saying that it has become THE standard if Johnny small-time
computers Inc. can't afford to implement it.

This is just the way I feel. I think postscript is good, but why should I have
to pay to implement it on my window system (from scratch)!

If something is to be a real standard there should be NO restrictions about
implementation so long as the implementation confirms to the standard.

All flames to /dev/null, I'm only letting off steam.

Jo.
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