Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why No Adobe Host-Base Interpreters?
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.164311.10296@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <34733@cup.portal.com> <1990Oct11.173733.14781@zoo.toronto.edu> <14508@vdsvax.crd.ge.com> <1990Oct24.170502.22224@zoo.toronto.edu> <BARNETT.90Nov1161021@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 90 16:43:11 GMT

In article <BARNETT.90Nov1161021@grymoire.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.ge.com writes:
>>   I don't think software sales produce more than a tiny fraction of Adobe's
>>   income; indeed, one can debate whether the software's role is to make
>>   money directly or merely to encourage use of PostScript...
>
>I wonder how much profit can Adobe make on a $2000 printer vs. a
>$300 software package? ...

I've no idea what the relative numbers are.  However, I got slightly indignant
mail from the software people at Adobe, stating firmly that they are there to
make money and that software revenues are a growing (although as yet modest)
fraction of Adobe's total.  They did concede that promotion of PostScript is
a not-insignificant secondary purpose.
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"I don't *want* to be normal!"         | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
"Not to worry."                        |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
