Re: Why No Adobe Host-Basec Interpreters?

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 1990 17:37

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In article <34733@cup.portal.com> schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) writes:
>With Adobe finally licensing (and producing) direct-market interpreters
>for the HP printers, why don;t they do in the host-based clones (like
>Freedom of Press, UltraScript, Goscript, etc. etc) by producing one of
>their own...

One reason why they might legitimately hesitate to do this is the copying
problem.  There are great practical advantages to selling interpreters
that are imbedded in a piece of hardware, because it makes them much
more difficult to pirate.
-- 
"...the i860 is a wonderful source     | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
of thesis topics."    --Preston Briggs |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry

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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Basec Interpreters?
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