Newsgroups: comp.text
Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: Price of DWB 3.1 (source)
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.165505.19210@eci386.uucp>
Summary: $20,000.00(US)!
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
References: <1990Nov5.022533.29625@nixtdc.uucp> <1990Nov15.134714.15935@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1990Nov15.205157.20930@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 90 16:55:05 GMT

In article <1990Nov15.205157.20930@cbnewsl.att.com> npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) writes:
> In article <1990Nov15.134714.15935@bellcore.bellcore.com>, mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) writes:
> > I heard a rumor which I simply can't believe is true, but thought
> > people here might know the answer.  I was told that a DWB 3.1  source
> > license costs $20,000!!!!
> >[....]
>[...various words about other high priced software, but yes it is $20,000...]
> University price is $1,000, so the only ones who should
> be chagrined at the price are small companies who want
> source. But why would you want source?

Oh, so we can do silly things like change it!  :-)

Hopefully one of the primary reasons from the past for wanting easy
access to source has been eliminated.  This reason being the necessity
of having source to fix bugs....

Actually, unless DWB 3.1 has been tuned up as well as something like
SoftQuad's version of 2.0 (i.e. with many of the limits removed, long
macro names added, enhanced error reporting, better kerning, etc.), it
won't be worth much.  On the other hand, some of us might prefer to
hack these features in ourselves, rather than pay a third party to do
it *their* way....

Also, if the source has really been cleaned up it might be a thing of
beauty to behold, and worth having for its own sake!  :-)
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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