Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Yale Pricing
Message-ID: <1990Oct7.034133.4903@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <485.270c8aac@venus.ycc.yale.edu>
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 90 03:41:33 GMT

In article <485.270c8aac@venus.ycc.yale.edu> m@jacobi.biology.yale.edu (mark mccallum) writes:
>If Next really wants to stand the industry on its collective ear they could
>include source for all system software on systems sold with optical/cd-rom
>drives...

Uh, do remember that large slices of Mach are still Unix-derived, meaning
that you get to spend circa $100,000 for a commercial Unix source license
before you are allowed to look at them.  (Unless your machine is a university
machine -- not just somehow vaguely affiliated with the university, but
*owned* by the university -- and has had its name and serial number added
to the list of machines covered by the university's academic source license.)
NeXT does not have much room to maneuver on this until some combination of
CMU and Berkeley succeeds in producing a completely de-AT&Tized system.
-- 
Imagine life with OS/360 the standard  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
operating system.  Now think about X.  |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry