krempel@cmx.npac.syr.edu (Henry BJ Krempel) (12/23/88)
In-reply-to: rcd@ico.ISC.COM's message of 23 Dec 88 00:19:58 GMT Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: NeWS and DPS, who wins? References: <926@cmx.npac.syr.edu> <13061@ico.ISC.COM> --text follows this line-- I agree with the criticism of my original article as being biased, I have not had any relations with Adobe, except in reading the materials distributed with their products, which I find to be of high quality, and very well documented. All of the article is mere conjecture. You point out: >An even better question is why Sun and Adobe didn't try to get together >and work things out... That is exactly what I was trying to encourage the two parties to do. My article was meant to guess at some of the motivations behind the current situation where both companies are not agreeing on a single standard. As far as your statements about the lack of a single standard encouraging innovation, this is also true. But I don't have to point out that window systems survive solely on the richness of the applications available in them, and small companies will not be too enthusiastic about porting products to a PostScript window system, unless they can write applications in a single portable syntax. -- Henry B. J. Krempel <krempel@pacrat.npac.syr.edu> Computing and Network Services (CNS) Syracuse University 250 Machinery Hall, Syracuse, N.Y. 13244 #! rnews