System V Release 4.0

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Tue Oct 25 06:09:38 AEST 1988


In article <211 at tscs.UUCP> gerard at tscs.UUCP (Stephen M. Gerard) writes:
>>You should be able to get ksh from the ATT Toolchest.  There is a
>>charge, but not a lot.
>Last time I looked on the toolchest it was ONLY $3,000.00.  About
>2,800 reasons why I could not buy it.  To me, $3k is A LOT of money.
>And to think, I have customers who complain about a price of $100.00 
>for a piece of software.  I'd hate to be trying to sell them a $65K+ UNIX
>source license. :-)

The $3K is for unlimited site-wide use of the source code.
Binary sublicensing is available, so that a binary copy could be
distributed for a fee along the lines of what you seem to consider
reasonable.  After all, the "$100" software you talk about is
unlikely to come in source form.



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