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Subject:Re: OT: Adobe and the "Font Wars" From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:06:45 -0700
It may have been brought up in an earlier installment of the serialized
book. If you haven't read *Accidental Empires* in a while, it can be
entertaining to wade through the installments starting with chapter 1. I
enjoyed it for a week or so while eating breakfast.
> Chris
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> "Adobe makes more money than ever in its PostScript backwater, but is
> not wresting the operating system business from Microsoft, as both
> companies had expected"?
>
> I don't remember anyone ever expecting Adobe to get into the OS
> business, and I can't find anything in that "Font Wars" chapter that
> explains that comment.
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