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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!atha!canada!nebulus!dennis From: dennis@nebulus.ca (Dennis S. Breckenridge) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!! Message-ID: <1992Jul23.175517.13656@nebulus.ca> Date: 23 Jul 92 17:55:17 GMT References: <1992Jul21.104627.3353@mel.dit.csiro.au> <1992Jul21.131433.16450@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> <82@ampr.ab.ca> Organization: Alchemy Mindworks, Edmonton, Alberta Lines: 26 lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >Or better yet, is the Death Star going to sue the Jolitz's too? No they tend to go after the small development companies, this scares the rest into hiding. What are the ramifications if eh TNT wins. Will all of their current source license holders lose thier licenses. If the Death Star would wake up and smell the coffee, they would get serious about the competition out there in the real UNIX(tm) world and drop thier source license price. 60k U.S. for a very broken SVR4 is a little steep guys. I can ftp Jolitz or drop 1k into BSDi and I am not locked down to a specific hardware platform. I can get support on most hardware add-ons either via the net or directly from BSDi. Hell I payed 3500.00 for a O/S and C compiler from AT&T in binary form. I do not get any support because I dropped my AT&T platform for something a little faster and quite a bit cheaper. I would consider paying that kind of money for the O/S source, but somebody has to pay the lawyers! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dennis S. Breckenridge VE7TCP@VE7TCP [44.135.160.59] dennis@nebulus.ca Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed - Oracle -------------------------------------------------------------------------------