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Re: Diatribe, revisited

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From: Richard Foulk
Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 10:56
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>Tomas Rokicki posted some good ideas about test suites and PS preprocessors.
>But I'd just like to point out that Adobe doesn't really need to have anything
>to do with this.  I mean, if someone were to write the code you mentioned and
>make it public domain, it would get distributed, and used.  I think the
>problems are more rooted in ignorance than in lack of legislation.  (That
>applies to a lot of things, doesn't it? :-))

I don't buy this.  Yes, ignorance is one of the big problems.  But what
if you buy a PostScript-producing program and it doesn't work right?

If you were to verify that it doesn't pass Adobe's own tests, I'd think
that that would be better grounds than just about anything else for
demanding that they fix things.

I think Tom has the right idea.

-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com
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