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From: rmshair@uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
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Subject: Re: Some thanks aimed at Frank & the Kermit Project
Date: 25 Jan 1997 08:10:13 GMT
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dsew@packrat.UUCP (David Sewell) writes:
>In article <5boo9s$5kq$1@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu>,
>Frank da Cruz <fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>>: I currently have my development system set up to boot OS/2
>>: (where I live), Windows 95 and Windows NT.
>>:
>>: Will I need three separate licenses for Kermit 95, or one?
>>:
>>Most likely you will need not one, not three, but two, since a common
>>executable runs on Windows 95 and NT, but not on OS/2. But nothing's
>>definite yet.
>
>I would hope that for e.g. academic site licenses, the site license
>would cover all versions of Kermit 95--otherwise non-Wintel people
>are effectively going to be shut out from that option. (I can't quite
>see the U of Arizona spending several thousand $ for a license to
>run OS/2 Kermit 95 alone, even if I asked nicely...!)
I was similarly hoping that Kermit 95 for OS/2 would be included in
the same retail package as the version for NT and 95, just as
PowerQuest does with Partition Magic. They tried having separate
versions for Partition Magic V2, but went back to a single distribution,
as it's more manageable.
>--
>David Sewell * dsew@packrat.aml.arizona.edu | "Night-walkers, wizards,
>Dep't of Geosciences, University of Arizona | bacchanals, revellers,
> http://packrat.aml.arizona.edu/~dsew/ | sharers in the mysteries."
> | --Heraclitus
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