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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!cs.titech!titccy.cc.titech!necom830!mohta From: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,fj.unix Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM Keywords: cdrom Message-ID: <1760@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Date: 11 Jul 92 10:40:29 GMT References: <2278@nic.cerf.net> Sender: news@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Lines: 34 In article <2278@nic.cerf.net> richter@nic.cerf.net (Adam J. Richter) writes: > CSRG is supposed to release the 4.4-alpha tape in the next >week or so. To raise money, CSRG is going to charge $1,000 for a >tape, and they've asked a number of major FTP sites not to make the >tape available for a while so that companies will actually buy it. On 7/9, at the Conference of Japan UNIX Society, there was a BOF meeting on BSD issues. There, Keith Bostic, one of the foreign guests, said full BSD4.4 tape will be charged $2,000 and could be delivered to those who have 32V or upper AT&T license, while freely distributable BSD4.4-light, which includes 90% of full 4.4, will be delivered at $1,000 without any license. Among the participants of the BOF meeting, there are 35 people who will willingly pay $1,000 to get a copy of 4.4-light. Thus, it was decided to first collect money, and send the money to BSD leaving minimal amount to produce CDROM. Then, after 4.4-light is released, I receive a copy, add export restricted DES part, create copies and deliver CDROMs. As I can produce more copies cheaply, I can sell them worldwide and send all profit to CSRG. > My company, Yggdrasil Computing Infrastructure Corp., In which country is your company located? If you are in US, you can't export anything which includes DES. Masataka Ohta