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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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Subject: Re: Money and the MINIX Centre
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Date: 3 Aug 90 11:58:04 GMT
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In article <1990Aug2.184038.10871@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> gl8f@astsun9.astro.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:
>And I also hope that someday I'll be able to get a copy of the Amoeba
>source without having to fork over big bucks, so I can just read it.
>Knowing you, there will be some method, and I'm glad you make the
>effort.

It will be available in source form by license (not by ftp) by the end of
this year.  A university source license for an unlimited number of machines
on one campus will certainly be well under $1000.  For comparison purposes,
I believe the current AT&T "free" license is something like $1200, and if
you want Berkeley stuff, add another few hundred.

We hope to sell it to commercial companies at a fair market price, to generate
some money to hire more people to work on it.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)