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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!enigma.staff.ichange.com!News From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@netsinc.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Framemaker for FreeBSD? Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:56:39 -0500 Organization: Nets Inc. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <334A5CA7.41C67EA6@netsinc.com> References: <5ic58v$n9q$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: eskimo.industry.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.7-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38740 Peter M. Chen wrote: > > Anybody know if Framemaker has been ported to FreeBSD (or Linux, and can > be emulated on FreeBSD)? Or is there some other desktop publishing > system that runs on a free Unix (besides LaTeX and troff)? > > If not, I wonder how much work it would be to port this from a commercial > Unix platform (e.g. Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix, etc.). Can someone who > has experience porting a large, graphically-intensive application comment > on the pitfalls and difficulties? > > I also wonder if Adobe would allow some outsider to port Framemaker for them > with the appropriate non-disclosure agreement. Doing the porting work for > the companies could be a potent method for getting more commercial applications > up and running on the free Unixes. But I may just be naive about the > difficulty and legal problems. > > Pete My guess is that the port is not the issue. The question is probably whether there would be enough sales revenue to justify the cost of providing a support structure for the product. In most software vendors' universes, the cost to provide support for their products (telephone/email/fax support, updates, patches, etc.), even when they charge a fee, is staggering. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tundra" Tim Daneliuk System Architect, Nets Inc. email: tundra@netsinc.com Voice/FAX: 847.827.1706 Pager: 630.223.0266 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------