In a message dated: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:57:38 EST
Derek Martin said:
>> means that the technology must be licensed.
>
>That seems improbable, since we have ghostscript and gv from the FSF.
>There must be a way around that, or else they would not exist.
It may be a free for personal use thing. Of course, PS is a language, to
which Adobe holds the rights, similar to Sun owning Java. They may not care
if a bunch of people are using free PS utilities on Unix where no one's makine
a dime, but don't think for a minute that they aren't getting license fees for
every HP printer that's capable of accepting PS jobs!
Sun had to license DPS from Adobe, and I believe there was also some
connection to Apple for the printer technology they sold at the time. (Rumor
has it that a NeWS printer from Sun will work "out-of-the-box" with either a
Mac or an old ][e/c).
--
Seeya,
Paul
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