ksh 11/16/88e now available in AT&T Toolchest

Rich Kaul kaul at icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu
Wed Oct 3 04:03:30 AEST 1990


In article <4140 at lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard at thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
   GNU stuff is *not* free. It costs something other than money, though: it costs
   your freedom to do as you like with your code if you include even a line of
   their code. $150 sure sounds cheap by comparison.

Wait a minute.  Engage brain before fingers.  Just how much do you
think it will cost you if you include any AT&T code in your product?
Especially if you don't ask them about it first.  Lawyers ain't
exactly cheap.

I believe that the statement is:  the GNU stuff doesn't cost you
anything to install.  The AT&T stuff costs bucks and "doesn't work as
well"  (no comment on that last since I run the GNU stuff and haven't
tried the AT&T stuff in ages).
-- 
Rich Kaul                         | It wouldn't be research if we
kaul at icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu    | knew what we were doing.



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