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From: mls@cbnewsm.att.com (mike.siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: OPEN LOOK is not FREE ( $1000 + $500 extra machine)
Summary: what the $1000 covers
Message-ID: <1990Jul12.143600.23647@cbnewsm.att.com>
Date: 12 Jul 90 14:36:00 GMT
References: <1414@shodha.dec.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1414@shodha.dec.com> west@gsrc.dec.com
(Jim West (Stealth Contractor)) writes:

> Just remember that this is a SOURCE license.  A vendor will buy a source
> license and then produce a binary product which is MUCH cheaper to sell.

The source license carries with it license to run the derived binary on
all machines networked to the licensed one in a radius of 25 miles.  So
a site like a university needs only one source license (or at least, one
per major geographic location.)

Disclaimer: this is what I remember from staff meetings at USENIX; I am
	    not in marketing, and you really should explore these issues
	    with them (in some depth, rather than just reacting to a few
	    words.)  As someone else pointed out, this particular question
	    only refers to the USL (a wholly-owned AT&T subsidiary :-))
	    OPEN LOOK product offering Xt+, not to other variants.  And
	    of course, you should *also* explore in depth what you do and
	    do not get with Motif licenses.
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