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From: gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu (Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: PostScript standard?
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Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 22:28:14 EDT
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jvs@micas.UUCP (Jo stockley) writes:
> 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.

Please excuse my ignorance...  If I wanted to write my *own*
PostScript interpreter (I don't, actually), I would require licensing
from Adobe?  It wouldn't be enough to merely accredit the design of
the language to Adobe?  Or have I misinterpreted what you're saying?

Silver.

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