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From: sysop@pro-generic.cts.com (Matthew Montano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Apple and postscript
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Date: 18 May 89 15:13:42 GMT
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pnet01!crash!cs.ucla.edu!lange mentioned something to the effect:

> Why does Apple insist on reinventing the wheel. Adobe can't be charging
> *THAT* much for postscript.

  There is no doubt about it that Apple can afford (physically) to purchase
the licenses for postscript and place them in the Mac //'s. Mind you the price
of those units would be about $500 more. I think Adobe makes about $800 per
laser printer sold with postscript, thats a LOT.. no wonder the founders of
Adobe are weathy and rightfully so for their intelligent marketing.

  But really, why would Apple let a piece of the proprietry setup be
controlled by a third party. Not one piece of the Apple // and Macintosh setup
(system software, hardware etc.) is owned or copyrighted by another company.
Running the entire ship means you control the entire ship, it's yours to do as
you feel. IBM is severly constricted by Microsoft and their control over
MS-DOS. NeXT pays many dollars to use postscript, mind you they have paid for
Mach and other pieces of design or hardware. 

  Apple would like to maintain control over their own products, to guide them
into the future how they feel is right, whether you agree with this or not..
it WORKS. IBM and the clone market has really become a mess of incompatible
products with a lack of true direction and control. Letting Adobe control a
piece of the guarded system software/hardware design of an Apple machine would
be deadly to the market.


Matthew Montano - A TRUE apple guru, who will never give up his Apple //.

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