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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!news From: spfarrel@gorgias.uchicago.edu (steve farrell) Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: gorgias.uchicago.edu Message-ID: <4llaa7$pac@gorgias.uchicago.edu> Lines: 26 Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: A Red Hat Commercial Linux Site References: <4ki055$60l@Radon.Stanford.EDU> <317CA542.F15E726@gramercy.ios.com> <4lk2p7$bc1@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <4ll8im$gp9@news.duke.edu> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 13:28:39 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22218 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:819 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3485 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3338 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18070 comp.os.linux.advocacy:46977 In article <4ll8im$gp9@news.duke.edu>, Charles Reese <reese@chem.duke.edu> wrote: >kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu (Kevin P. Neal) wrote: >>Bryan Seigneur (freds@gramercy.ios.com) wrote: >>: You know of course that there is Matlab for Linux (ergo, probably for *BSD, >>: too). >> >>Sorry, this does not follow. Just because there is a Linux version DOES >>NOT mean there is a *BSD version. >> >>-- >>XCOMM Kevin P. Neal, Sophomore, Comp. Sci. \ kpneal@interpath.com >>XCOMM Frue, Secret Agent of Smerp (shh!) \ kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu >>XCOMM Visit the House of RetroComputing at / Perm. Email: >>XCOMM http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kpneal/www/ / kevinneal@bix.com > >And one other small point Linux may be free but Matlab is not. We had >Matlab on our Dec Ultrix machines and it costs $1000 / year for a license > (I think it was a 3 user one) where it was less then $1000 to buy it for >the PC. I find that a lot of commercial apps for Unices still harve >yearly license fees. well, sybase for unix is ~$15k, and for NT is ~$1.2K. (i know the base licensing is different, but the disparity is still nearly 10x for equivalent licensing). unix prices are just nuts for "serious" apps, and that's a serious problem too.