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From: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: OpenWindows Source Facts
Keywords: rumors
Message-ID: <869@visenix.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 90 23:23:04 GMT
References: <3137@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie)
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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_.
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