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From: collins@grumpy.cs.unm.edu (Bill Collins)
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Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 **really** wants to be a rainbow.
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Date: 14 Nov 89 20:03:28 GMT
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In article <127708@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman ...
			   ^^^^^^^
Isn't this some sort of branch of AT&T, or something? :-)

>If you buy a machine from most other vendors say MIPS, SGI, Sun, etc.
>you find more livable minimal licenses.

Doesn't SUN sell a 2-user license?(Really, I am not sure.)  

>... It(the license agreement) is DEC's decision all the way.

No, it wasn't.  It was between AT&T and DEC lawyers.  But I do wish that
DEC could have gotten a better agreement from AT&T.(Provided that AT&T
could have been more giving.)

					Bill
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