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From: rvb@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Mach on the I386
Keywords: $$$$
Message-ID: <10665@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 20:38:58 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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Let me clarify things.  The real problem here is that
CMU is not a company; it is an educational institution.
The license it has for Unix (from AT&T) is an educational
license.  This means that WE CAN NOT SELL binaries and
sources to anyone.  (We can distribute sources and binaries
to people that already have AT&T commercial or educational
source licenses.  And we actively do this.)  Berkeley is in
the same boat.  They can not sell you their binaries either.

Now if you are willing to give us or Berkeley several
hundred thousand dollars (around $200,000 I beleive) so that
we can acquire such a license, then someone could get excited
about distributing the Mach system.

So unless some company that has already paid for the rights to
distributed Unix decides to acquire and distribute Mach,  I'm
afraid there can be no mass Mach 386 distribution.  And I'd
be surprised if this company would GIVE Mach away.  If for
no other reason than, it would have to pay AT&T a royalty on
each sale.