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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>
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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