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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: You get what you pay for (was: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel)
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Date: 21 Jul 90 04:29:49 GMT
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>> [...] Unix, X, and TCP/IP [...]
>> Each of those systems was available in source form at little or no
>> cost.
> Well, I don't know what the original Unix licensing fees were, but a
> normal person can hardly get Unix source these days for "little or no
> cost".

(That's one of the things that's wrong with what currently goes by the
name UNIX.  But that's off the track.)  The UNIX that caught on like
wildfire, that made it the success it is, *was* source-available
essentially free.  (And now that it's become widespread, AT&T's got
everybody else intimidated or bought off.[%])

					der Mouse

			old: mcgill-vision!mouse
			new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu

[%] So I'm in an obnoxious mood, but that's how I see it.  The little
    fish can't possibly afford to fight AT&T in court even if they have
    a won case, and the big ones are all "cooperating" in "joint
    efforts" of one sort or another.