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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!pasteur!hermes.Berkeley.EDU!bostic From: bostic@hermes.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-alpha CDROM Keywords: cdrom Message-ID: <1992Jul13.232742.11206@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 13 Jul 92 23:27:42 GMT References: <2278@nic.cerf.net> <1760@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster) Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 32 Nntp-Posting-Host: hermes.berkeley.edu In article <1760@titccy.cc.titech.ac.jp> mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp (Masataka Ohta) writes: >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. Unfortunately, our original plan of distributing the 4.4BSD alpha tape in both USL licensed and freely redistributable forms (4.4BSD-Lite alpha) is not going to be possible. The University has decided that further "administrative review" of 4.4BSD-Lite alpha is necessary before it can be released. This means that the various efforts to make it available on CDROM will have to be postponed. We confidently expect that the final distribution will be available in the two forms, as we have previously stated. Additionally, if the administrative review is completed quickly we will release 4.4BSD-Lite alpha as well. Keith Bostic Kirk McKusick