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From: "Michael_Powers.Henr801M"@XEROX.COM
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: NeWS and Display PostScript
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Date: 14 Feb 89 02:25:56 GMT
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>If Adobe and Sun cannot come to some kind truce about PostScript and
>don't start working together, both NeWS and eventually PostScript will
>go down the drain.  This would be a damn shame.

I don't think that Sun and Adobe will be able to "work together" outright.
The reason why Adobe has done so well with Postscript in the first place is
because of it's low profile. (What I mean by low profile is that: 1) it is
not a major hardware vendor 2) it is not allied directly with one
particular vendor and 3) it's a relatively small company). If Adobe were to
push NeWS or even appear to be pushing NeWS then I do believe that the OSF
members (who also happen to be OEMS of DPS) would be quite upset. Adobe
cannot afford that. They cannot alienate DEC, IBM, HP, and the whole PC
world just to gain the advantage of NeWS customers. 

Personally I agree that it would be nice to have Adobe and Sun working
together rather than playing these political olympics. But it just is not
going to happen with the current client of OSFism and the workstation war
that is heating up.

Mike Powers

Xerox Corp.
powers.henr801m@xerox.com

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