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From: rps@matuc2.mat.uc.pt (Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro)
Subject: Re: Unix close for 486 - commens requested
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jeg7e@livia.acs.Virginia.EDU (Jon Gefaell) writes:
: In article <23r8kl$la4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:

: > For $2K you get one-year unlimited licenses + support,

: My disagreements with this article are legion.
: 
: 1.) Last I was quoted, by Rob Kolstad (@bsdi.com) full source license
: to BSDI's product is ~$1K NOT $2K

You are talking about one source license and Nate Williams is talking
about a SITE license. One site license is $2K/year.

BTW, since we are talking money, for 10 machines you could buy one
source license + 9 aditional binary licenses ($200 each ?) = $2800.
This includes support for 60 days.
So you see that in the first year it's cheaper to pay a site license.

: 2.) You don't need accelerated video, 32M RAM, EISA, etc etc ad nauseum
:     for what you've asked for.

I agree. I'm using BSDI with 16Mb in a ISA machine with a ET4000 video.
But the display is a little slow (mostly text scrolling).
Accelerated video may be worth it if you want to use X.

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