pardo@june.cs.washington.edu (David Keppel) (04/16/88)
In article <4181@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com> barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.ge.com (Bruce G. Barnett) writes: ->In article <647@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> shadow@pawl23.pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) writes: ->|Yes, there is something really wrong here. The problem is that Sun never ->|implemented the full font model in NeWS 1.0 or 1.1, regardless of what the ->|release notes for NeWS 1.1 say. -> -> ->Don't be to hard on Sun. The problem is that the outline fonts belong ->to Adobe. Sun cannot supply them without legal permission. -> ->As I hear, the problem is somewhat sticky. ->I can imagine the conversation (insert tongue in cheek :-) . . . -> -> Adobe: NeWS is definitely not PostScript! -> Sun: But it does everything PostScript does! -> Adobe: But you didn't license it from us! -> Sun: But the language is in the public domain. -> Adobe: No it isn't. -> Sun: It was when you wrote your charter! -> Adobe: Well - you can call it PostScript if you pay us our -> per copy fee. That's only $$$$$ per machine. -> Sun: But we wrote the entire thing ourselves! -> Adobe: So? -> Sun: Why should we pay you for our effort!!! -> Adobe: Do you want to call it PostScript or not? -> ->Note: The above is an example of humor - it bears no relation to -> the actual legal disagreement between Sun and Adobe. As I understand things (Disclaimer: I have never worked at Adobe or Sun) the "standard" set of Adobe fonts have at least 2 interesting properties: (1) They have names that are licensed from the owners of the names, so you can make a font that looks the same but you can't call it "Times Roman" or whatever, because that name is already taken. (2) The Adobe fonts aren't "really" Postscript. This came up because apparantly there are a lot of clones running around out there that confirm to the Adobe Postscript standard, but they won't run the standard Postscript fonts! In addition, Adobe would *like* lock and stock over everything, even when they don't have legal *rights* to it. It is to their advantage to stall things until they get Display Postscript (tm) running. (Apology: I just started reading this newsgroup, so I don't know if this is a dead horse.) ;-D on ( Well I tried and I tried and then I did it ) Pardo