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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Bitmap of PostScript code..
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.200022.2860@alphalpha.com>
Date: 28 Feb 90 20:00:22 GMT
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In article <2839@bacchus.dec.com> kent@wsl.dec.com (Christopher A. Kent) writes:
>Adobe isn't stifling progress. There are at least two, no, it's three
Agreed.

>This isn't about stifling progress folks -- let's be fair. This is about
>not wanting to pay for using the fruits of Adobe's labor. You're hooked
Wrong. The problem with Display Postscript is not the price, it's the
damn licensing terms. I know of several companies who have been negotiating
for *years*, no exageration, to get reasonable licensing terms and have
failed. Furthermore, everytime you come out with a new piece of hardware
you have to wait for Adobe to have the time to do another port, because
they won't trust you to compile their source code.

>If you want to use DPS in your application, pay for it. If your
>workstation vendor doesn't use it, gripe at them. If they don't listen,
>switch vendors to one that does.
Sure, just throw out a few hundred thousand dollars worth of investment.
Do it all the time!

>Complain to someone who can do something about it, eh?
People have, the one company most capable of doing something about it
is Adobe, and people are complaining.

I don't see the problem. I've got a Mac, I'd like to have DPS on that.
Apple doesn't have it, so why doesn't Adobe sell it directly?  I'd
buy it. Ditto for my Apollo. What's the problem? I'm not flaming, I
just don't understand it.

							-kee
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