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Article #3533Re: Why No Adobe Host-Base Interpreters?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 16:43
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 1990 16:43
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In article <BARNETT.90Nov1161021@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes: >> I don't think software sales produce more than a tiny fraction of Adobe's >> income; indeed, one can debate whether the software's role is to make >> money directly or merely to encourage use of PostScript... > >I wonder how much profit can Adobe make on a $2000 printer vs. a >$300 software package? ... I've no idea what the relative numbers are. However, I got slightly indignant mail from the software people at Adobe, stating firmly that they are there to make money and that software revenues are a growing (although as yet modest) fraction of Adobe's total. They did concede that promotion of PostScript is a not-insignificant secondary purpose. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Base Interpreters? Message-ID: <1990Nov2.164311.10296@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <34733@cup.portal.com> <1990Oct11.173733.14781@zoo.toronto.edu> <14508@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> <1990Oct24.170502.22224@zoo.toronto.edu> <BARNETT.90Nov1161021@grymoire.crd.ge.com> Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 16:43:11 GMT