utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis) (08/08/89)
In article <43860@bbn.COM>, denbeste@bbn.com (Steven Den Beste) writes: > The latest Business Week had two tidbits about Apple: > 2. Adobe, the folks who came up with "PostScript", was part owned by Apple, and > [. . .] > going to engineer its own product to emulate the one it was buying from Adobe. > (I was a little confused about just what the product was. It didn't sound like > printer software. Maybe it was a program to do screen-dumps to post-script > printers?) The implication was strong that customers wouldn't be able to tell > the products apart. It was the PostScript interpreter that lives in their printers. > > Hey, Adobe: Can your lawyers say "look and feel"? Of course they can. But you can't copyright a language. However... Someone once tried to sell a product that used the SAS language from SAS Institute (who bought Lattice because they wanted their own C compiler--Someone please toast my cookies if I'm wrong about this:-). SAS claimed they owned the language and shook enough lawyers at them to get them to give up the idea. The way I heard it, SAS couldn't have won the fight, but the little guy couldn't afford to challenge. This may a myth. So, has anybody ported a subset of SAS to the Amiga? :-) _____ | Todd M. Lewis Disclaimer: If you want my employer's ||\/| utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu ideas, you'll have to || || utoddl@ecsvax.bitnet _buy_ them. | || |___ (Never write a program bigger than your screen.)