Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: SYSVR4 available to students/faculty for $100? Keywords: SYSVR4 Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 90 17:55:57 GMT References: <15854@s.ms.uky.edu> Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 18 I'm afraid there may have been some misunderstanding. MS at uky is not making an offer to sell SVR4. I'm simply explaining how the licensing works. To put it on the many machines they have, ms is going to have to buy binary licenses. They may make it available to students at the University. In any case, they're not interested in supporting it. They don't like the fact they they have to generate the binary dist themselves. They'll do what they can to keep it running in-shop. Note - this is what I have gleaned by talking to the employees there. It is not an official policy statement of the university. I have posted this in an attempt to clear up any wrong impressions I may have caused. -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** rec.pyrotechnics: "Blow up or shut up."