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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Subject: Re: I've seen NT......and I'll take OS/2 2.0 thanks!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.234816.23736@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
- References: <SXMRP.20.0@orca.alaska.edu> <1992Aug17.201353.3278@news.columbia.edu> <1992Aug18.090822.696@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 23:48:16 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.090822.696@calmasd.prime.com> kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug17.201353.3278@news.columbia.edu>, mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green) writes:
- >> In article <SXMRP.20.0@orca.alaska.edu> SXMRP@orca.alaska.edu (Michael R. Platzke) writes:
- >>
- >>>** Although those who don't need it will have to pay for it.
- >>
- >> Please explain this. It costs IBM a fixed amount to write the software.
- >> Distribution on CD-ROM means it doesn't cost them extra disks. I would pay
- >> the cost of the disks to get TCP-IP. But I can't justify several hundred
- >> dollars so that I can run TCP-IP unless I am making money from it. The fact
- >> is, I am a home user, and all of my network access is for hobby. I would
- >> like to run TCP-IP over Amateur Packet radio using IBM's TCP-IP package, but
- >> I don't have that kind of money to spend. IBM's package is inaccessable to
- >> the typical home user who, in my opinion, is likely to have a spare machine
- >> or laptop which he will want to network on occasion. It is too bad that I
- >> can't use IBM TCP-IP, since it would cost me more than it is worth to me.
- >
- >Let's put this into a little more of an extreme...DEC is distributing nearly
- >their entire product suite on a set of 7 CDRoms right now. By your logic I
- >should be able to pay for the cost of the 7 disks to gain access to almost all
- >of their products since it cost them a fixed amount for the
- >development and the distribution isn't costing extra.
- >
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- Actually, you have all their software on those CD-ROMs. You only need
- the secret password to install product 'x' on you system. Of course
- you have to pay for the license...
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
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- bdubbs@sadis01.sa.aflc.af.mil | Scrupulous Lawyer
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