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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news,comp.windows.x,alt.sys.sun,comp.windows.x.announce
Subject: Re: The real OpenWindows source announcement
Message-ID: <1990Nov20.004706.17609@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 20 Nov 90 00:47:06 GMT
References: <1990Nov15.144507.22915@mcs.anl.gov> <1154@dg.dg.com> <17545@rasp.eng.cam.ac.uk>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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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.
>
>just my 2p's worth ...
>share+enjoy,
>

Yeah, but if you have net access, you can get it for FREE via ftp from many
sites.


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