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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
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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!
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Dennis S. Breckenridge VE7TCP@VE7TCP [44.135.160.59] dennis@nebulus.ca
Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed - Oracle
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