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From: jordan_b_pollack
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 20:40

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Chris Kent writes:

>> 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.

This isn't quite so. Adobe got paid for its labor with a walloping
piece of the money paid for my Apple Laserwriter and will recieve a
walloping piece of the money going to QMS for Ultrascript to solve MY
problem of desktop presentation of scientific results.  And much of
the fruit, in the first place, was developed by Xerox anyhow!
(obligatory Adobe Bash:)

Since I have official Postscript in a printer connected to workstation
why should I have have to buy it again for to see bitmaps 
displayed, if it is technically possible to get them back from the
printer?  Imagine the cost of a NeXT machine if Jobs had to buy a
separate postscript/font license for the printer!

--
Jordan Pollack                            Assistant Professor
CIS Dept/OSU                              Laboratory for AI Research
2036 Neil Ave                             Email: pollack@cis.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210                        Fax/Phone: (614) 292-4890

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