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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: You get what you pay for (was: Re: Motif -> Open Look look & feel)
Message-ID: <3725@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 22 Jul 90 20:03:58 GMT
References: <9007210429.AA09366@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>The UNIX that caught on like wildfire, that made it the success it is,
>*was* source-available essentially free.

To *some* customers.  Commercial source licenses for V6, for example,
were somewhere in the $20K US range - or does costing $20K US count as
"essentially free"?

The "UNIX that caught on like wildfire, that made it the success it is"
was V7; that was the first one that appeared on *lots* of boxes.  I
suspect the availability of cheap *binary* sublicenses had more to do
with that than the availability of cheap source licenses....