*BSD News Article 3662


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!pacbell.com!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!sim
From: sim@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peng-Toh Sim)
Subject: Re: Selling 386BSD
Message-ID: <1992Aug15.000313.15593@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster)
Nntp-Posting-Host: cory
Organization: University of California, at Berkeley
References: <1992Aug12.100430.3467@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:03:13 GMT
Lines: 12

Hi

Now, since the question of selling 386BSD comes up, let me ask a
question I had in my mind for some time now.
Is it ok to sell 386BSD for a distribution fee like that for GNU
software and then sell support for it?
Is 386BSD strictly not for use at a commercial site?
Say for using it to develop other software, or using it as a base
for value added products (without charging for 386BSD itself)?

PT