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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Business Week article (NeXT to dump hardware)
- Message-ID: <C1Ky0o.CH4@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <1993Jan28.154717.22330@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan28.190819.7151@adobe.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:55:36 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan28.190819.7151@adobe.com> byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) writes:
- >
- >Should NeXT continue to make hardware?
- >
- >Not sure. But consider this:
- >
- >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.
- >
- >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
-