Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!ur-tut!sunybcs!canisius!sigmast!dgy From: dgy@sigmast.UUCP (Dave Yearke) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: DWB ownership (was: vi vs emacs in a student environment) Message-ID: <542@sigmast.UUCP> Date: 6 Jul 88 17:06:00 GMT References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <146@wash08.UUCP> <58846@sun.uucp> Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP Organization: Sigma Systems Technology, Inc., Buffalo NY Lines: 21 In article <58846@sun.uucp> guy@gorodish.Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes: >The exact statement was: > Softquad Publishing Software is the official new release of AT&T > Documenters Workbench, and hence does indeed contain licensed software > from AT&T. >which would have been better stated as "SoftQuad Publishing Software is baded >on the official new release...", unless they really *are* claiming that AT&T is >just reselling SoftQuad's software, which I would find difficult to believe. I also found it difficult to believe when I heard about it several weeks ago. Apparently, SoftQuad has rewritten troff to use a new device-independent output format that is human-readable, unlike dvi output. AT&T is evaluating it and if they like it will resell it as DWB 3.0. This is the story I got from our AT&T representative several weeks ago, and was confirmed by a SoftQuad employee I talked to. (Disclaimer: company reps have been known to be wrong. I will only say that this is what I was told, and may not be the actual case.) -- Dave Yearke, Sigma Systems Technology, Inc. 5813 Main St, Williamsville, NY 14221 ...!{sunybcs,ames!canisius}!sigmast!dgy