Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!NIC.GAC.EDU!scott From: scott@NIC.GAC.EDU Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: 105 Mb Systems - Bundled Software (explained?) Message-ID: <9010190407.AA06996@next-5.gac.edu> Date: 19 Oct 90 04:07:30 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 58 dave@convex.csd.uwm.edu (David A Rasmussen) writes: >From article <12630816173032@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>, by GINGRICH-T@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich): > PS: Even though the extended software is not included with a small > drive system, I believe that once you buy a NeXT you have rights to all > bundled software. > > If this is true then a 105Mb system user can buy an external drive later > and download the other system software from another NeXT. > >So if what you're saying is correct, I should be able to put the >distribution on a non-NeXT nfs server for my own use? > >My situation is whether or not I can get the boss to buy me one or not. >I would consider buying the 105Mb slab for myself, but it's not going >to be too useful to me without more storage which I can't really afford >right now. Since there seems to be alot of confusion on this subject, I place _my_ reading of the 2.0 stuff here . . .: Current users of 1.0 who stay with an '030 cube (both of them) must purchase an upgrade to 2.0, which, so far as I know, has not been set, yet. After purchasing this, they are licensed to run 2.0. Current cube owners who purchase the upgrade to '040 can purchase in one of two ways: with a 105M and without. Or something like that. Since the 105M comes with standard 2.0 pre-installed, it seems obvious that that machine is licensed for 2.0. I'm not sure, though, on the raw upgrade. Since 1.0 will not run on an '040 machine (ROM changes), it seems sensible that the 2.0 upgrade price would be included in the '040 upgrade price. Anyone who buys a NeXTStation or any of the another new systems will automagically be licensed to run 2.0. Now, what does the license to run 2.0 give you? In most cases, the machine, or possibly upgrade, will include the 105M, and thus the standard distribution. Now, here's the main point of this: People who are already licensed to run 2.0 can get 2.0 somehow - buying media from NeXT which happens to have 2.0 on it, from a local NFS server, or via sneaker-net, or any of the other popular NeXT networks. So, this means that anyone who chooses to stay with an '030 must purchase an upgraded license, while everyone else gets it with their new machine or '040 upgrade. Now, I just want to make clear that this has nothing to do with anything that NeXT has told me. I just have brought together stuff I've seen on this newsgroup, and applied a little common sense. scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer (Stuart) NeXT Campus Consultant (Not much, really) GAC Undergrad (Horrid. Simply Horrid. I mean the work!)