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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!pageworks.com!world!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!plato.phil.ruu.nl!freek
  3. From: freek@phil.ruu.nl (Freek Wiedijk)
  4. Subject: Re: Why the Piracy? Here's why...
  5. Message-ID: <freek.727896188@groucho.phil.ruu.nl>
  6. Sender: news@phil.ruu.nl
  7. Nntp-Posting-Host: groucho.phil.ruu.nl
  8. Organization: Department of Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
  9. References: <freek.726615644@groucho.phil.ruu.nl> <tal691.726832678@huxley>     <1jao9jINN52u@shelley.u.washington.edu> <tal691.727517967@huxley> <JASON.93Jan20142322@ab20.larc.nasa.gov>
  10. Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 17:23:08 GMT
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  13. jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin) writes:
  14. >Start a company,
  15. Adobe Systems
  16.  
  17. >invent a language,
  18. Postscript
  19.  
  20. >and get implementors to buy the rights to the language from you.
  21. I don't think Adobe gets paid for third party Postscript
  22. RIPs.  I think that's exactly the reason why those RIPs
  23. exist.
  24.  
  25. Freek
  26. --
  27. Third theory of Phenomenal Dynamics:  The difference between
  28. a symbol and an object is quantitative, not qualitative.
  29.