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From: skdutta@cs.tamu.edu (Saumen K Dutta)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: OpenWindows Source Facts
Keywords: rumors
Message-ID: <10304@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 21 Nov 90 21:03:07 GMT
References: <3137@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <869@visenix.UUCP>
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Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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In article <869@visenix.UUCP> beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie) writes:
->In article <3137@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) writes:
->>The source is free, but you must buy the documentation and media
->>directly from a Sun distributor to get it.  The $995 barely covers our
->
->Free is Free.
->Cheap is not Free.
->$995 may (or may not) be cheap but it is not free.
->If redistribution was free you could say
->it was free, but it aint so you can't.
->
->I get _real_ sick of marketing _lies_.
->-- 
->It is easier to build a   | Brian Beattie          (703)471-7552
->secure system than it is  | 11525 Hickory Cluster, Reston, VA. 22090 
->to build a correct system.|
->           M. Gasser      | ...uunet!visenix!beattie

So much for the source! How about the binaries? Can they be distributed
*FREE* through ftp or other sources. 


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