NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/comp/graphics/13407

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Path: sparky!uunet!gistdev!flint
From: [e-mail] (Flint Pellett)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: SUIT 2.3, An easy-to-learn GUI toolkit
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:17:43 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
Organization: Global Information Systems Technology Inc., Savoy, IL
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[e-mail] (The Simple User Interface Toolkit) writes:


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>              Who Can Get SUIT?
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>SUIT, including all its source code, is available without charge to
>Universities and other non-profit institutions.  For-profit
>organizations can purchase SUIT site licenses for a hefty fee. We are
>currenlty thinking about single-CPU liscenses as well. If you are

While SUIT sounds like it might be worth checking out, the fee
structure makes it such that it isn't even worth evaluating to see how
good it is for a lot of us.  Maybe an IBM or a MicroSoft can afford a
"hefty fee" for a 1000 workstation site license, but most small-business
software companies who want to use it at 1 or 2 stations cannot, and
in the large businesses where one or two people would like to use it,
they aren't going to be able to get their management to pay that hefty
fee just so a few people can use it.  I would urge you to think a lot
harder about single-CPU licenses if you want to see your software get
widespread use.
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Flint Pellett, Global Information Systems Technology, Inc.
100 Trade Centre Drive, Suite 301, Champaign, IL  61820     [phone]
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