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In article <1993Jan28.190819.7151@adobe.com> byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) writes:
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>Should NeXT continue to make hardware?
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>Not sure.  But consider this:
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>Would PostScript have been as successful if Adobe had stuck to the
>original plan and made printers?

Didn't Apple own part of Adobe back then. In any case it's not as though
there was an alternative to Postscript printers.
 
Note that as soon as there was (PCL, True Type now) most printer sales went
to non Postscript printers.
 
In the true tradition of Apple and others, Adobe overcharged for owning 
a Postscript printer. Were it not for True Type and PCL they would still
be.
 
It's essential that NeXT continue to make hardware. I also find it somewhat 
disappointing that Adobe has given minimal support to the one platform that
went out on a limb with a complete Postscript based imaging model, but then
what else could one expect from Adobe? Even Windows is getting more attention.

Just an opinion, but I really wonder whether Adobe is in any moral position
to comment on these matters. It is a publically owned company that goes where
the market is. Fortunately it doesn't have a monopoly on the way we see things.
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>It is extremely difficult to license OEMs for software.  If they
>think you're competing with them, it's darn near impossible.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu