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From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: bug in NeWS 1.1 or RTFM ?
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Date: 12 Apr 88 21:32:31 GMT
References: <220@nlgvax.UUCP> <647@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Reply-To: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett)
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In article <647@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> shadow@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes:
|Yes, there is something really wrong here.  The problem is that Sun never
|implemented the full font model in NeWS 1.0 or 1.1, regardless of what the
|release notes for NeWS 1.1 say.


Don't be to hard on Sun. The problem is that the outline fonts belong
to Adobe. Sun cannot supply them without legal permission.

As I hear, the problem is somewhat sticky. 

I can imagine the conversation (insert tongue in cheek :-) . . .

	Adobe:	NeWS is definitely not PostScript!
	Sun:	But it does everything PostScript does!
	Adobe:	But you didn't license it from us!
	Sun:	But the language is in the public domain.
	Adobe:	No it isn't.
	Sun:	It was when you wrote your charter!
	Adobe:	Well - you can call it PostScript if you pay us our
		per copy fee. That's only $$$$$ per machine.
	Sun:	But we wrote the entire thing ourselves!
	Adobe:	So?
	Sun:	Why should we pay you for our effort!!!
	Adobe:	Do you want to call it PostScript or not?

Note: The above is an example of humor - it bears no relation to
	the actual legal disagreement between Sun and Adobe.
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	Bruce G. Barnett 	<barnett@ge-crd.ARPA> <barnett@steinmetz.UUCP>
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