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- From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
- Subject: Re: Motif numbers per Open Systems Today & X Business Group
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.231934.5192@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
- References: <1jkvc1INNoke@shelley.u.washington.edu> <18448@autodesk.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:19:34 GMT
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- In article dls@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Louis Smith) writes:
- >In sinan@carson.u.washington.edu (Sinan Karasu) writes:
- >> The article then admitted that only 5000 motif
- >> licenses were sold to date on Sparc Stations
- >> which they said were less than 1% of Sparc Stations.
- >
- > 5000 Motif licenses from who though? OSF?
- > You can bet that a *lot* of people have 3rd party binary-only
- > Motif distributions on Suns. Much more than 5000.
- > Not everyone gets Motif from OSF.
-
- Whether you buy from OSF or a third party, you're still required to pay
- the per CPU runtime license fee. For more information, talk to someone
- at OSF or the third party.
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- Kaleb Keithley kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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