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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>
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- lyndon@ampr.ab.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
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- >Or better yet, is the Death Star going to sue the Jolitz's too?
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- No they tend to go after the small development companies, this scares
- the rest into hiding.
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- 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
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