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- From: mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney)
- Subject: Re: PAKGEN software (Was: will lmf will alpha?)
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:04:57 GMT
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- In article <> Adelman@TGV.COM (Kenneth Adelman) writes:
- >> How about pressuring DEC to abandon the truely RIDICULOUS price for the
- >> PAK generation software? or to provide a reasonably priced, publically
- >> accessible, PAK generation service? or to allow some third party to set
- >> up such a service?
- >
- > Only the list price is steep. If you're a DEC Independent
- >Software Vendor (ISV) you get a substantial discount off the list
- >price. I'd say that so far we've spend about $0.20/PAK for the PAKs
- >we've generated. Very reasonable. I believe anyone who write software
- >for DEC computers can become an ISV (call 800-DEC-ISVN).
-
- For the rest of the slow-learners/boneheads, note that $.20/PAK is probably
- much cheaper than the cost of developing and maintaining your own licensing
- scheme to go with your software. The code to do the license check is
- trivial to add to any program.
-
- Darrin
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