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- From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: DECwindows ==> Motif license upgrade
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.030929.3431@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 07:09:29 GMT
- References: <9207262258.AA10530@genrad.com>
- Organization: St. Peter's College, US
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- In article <9207262258.AA10530@genrad.com>, dongray@cdclu1.genrad.com (Derek Dongray) writes:
- > When DW/Motif was released in the UK, with its license, I made several equiries
- > to our local DEC sales people. The answer I got was that because part of the
- > code was not DEC's property a license fee *had* to be charged. Hence the 100
- > pounds for any machine offer. As far as I know there was *never* a free license
- > program in the UK. I suppose it's just another example of the US getting a much
- > better deal than the UK. (Or the rest of the world?)
-
- Just remember - it's DEC's job to its shareholders to show a profit [funny
- time to be mentioning this, no? 8-]. If DEC can be convinced that doing some-
- thing differently will make it easier to show a profit, they will do so. The
- trick is getting the evidence in front of the right person who can make that
- decision.
-
- If DEC thought it would come out ahead by giving away licenses, they would.
- By the way, given the botch they made of the free upgrade program here in the
- US, I suspect it cost them more than #100 per license - lots more.
-
- A similar example was the DEQNA->DELQA trade-up offer. The terms of this
- varied in the different Digital divisions, anywhere from "tough - go buy a new
- board" through "here's your free DELQA". In regions where folks thought the
- policy was bad, they lobbied (some successfully) to have it changed. The prob-
- lem with the Motif offer was that DEC managed to keep it a big secret, so no
- such grass-roots movement got started.
-
- Terry Kennedy Operations Manager, Academic Computing
- terry@spcvxa.bitnet St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ USA
- terry@spcvxa.spc.edu +1 201 915 9381
-