Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!cgwst From: cgwst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Gray Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: OS costs Message-ID: <36054@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: 7 Sep 90 21:19:51 GMT References: <350@usaos.UUCP> <1990Aug28.182758.29036@ico.isc.com> <599@janus.Quotron.com> Reply-To: gray@med.pitt.edu (Gray Watson) Organization: University of Pittsburgh Lines: 12 I hope I haven't missed the boat with this discussion. *I* am waiting for GNU to put out an entirely freeware release of their Unix. I have heard that they have stopped development on their own because MACH is going to become freeware. When this hits the streets with i386 and i486 patches to it, look out!!! Free Unix with *SOURCE* here we come. gray p.s. No wonder the Unix companies are trying to grab as much $$ as possible.