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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: Mach on the I386
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Date: 4 Oct 90 22:34:30 GMT
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In article <10665@pt.cs.cmu.edu> rvb@natasha.mach.cs.cmu.edu (Robert Baron) writes:

   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.



Will CMU have an AT&T free version of Mach within the next year?  I've
heard that Mach 3.0 will have all of the AT&T code removed.

-Mike