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From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll)
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Subject: Re: The real OpenWindows source announcement
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Date: 18 Nov 90 16:42:27 GMT
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In article <17545@rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk>, jpmg@eng.cam.ac.uk (Patrick Gosling) writes:
> In article <1154@dg.dg.com> uunet!dg!lewine writes:
> >|> free of
> >|> charge (cost of media only -- $995).  
> >
> >If this media costs SUN $995 I would like to talk to them about 
> >selling them blank tapes.
> 
> Just to be fair to sun, I gather that what you get for your $995 includes a
> fairly large stack of documentation.  Take the price that GNU (sorry, the
> FSF) (for example) charge for media ($150 per tape isn't it?), and the kind
> of price you pay for books nowadays, and it don't seem _too_ bad.
> 
Isn't it $150 for all of the GNU stuff, not per tape? And if you need $850
worth of books to use OpenWindows, I'm not going anywhere near it.
Also, my impression is that the FSF deliberately sets the price of their
tapes high to discourage people from actually ordering them, instead of
getting the stuff off the net or from a friend. How many people do you know
that run Emacs and actually paid for a GNU tape? If Sun doesn't allow the
source to be put on an anon-FTP site, then there's no comparison to GNU
source, regardless of the the FSF charges per tape.
-- 
Alan M. Carroll                Barbara/Marilyn in '92 :
Epoch Development Team          + This time, why not choose the better halves?
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll