Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!odi.COM!bob From: bob@odi.COM (Bob Miner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: The real OpenWindows source announcement Message-ID: <9011191413.AA01077@hendrix.odi.com> Date: 19 Nov 90 14:13:54 GMT References: <9011190921.AA02562@westhawk.uucp> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 30 Peter Korp writes: > In attempting to make OpenWindows > freely available Sun had to negotiate with AT&T. Apparently some > AT&T code exists in OW 2.0 or own some rights to it. Therefore, > the best deal(?) Sun could come up with was to charge a rather > large one time fee Yup, that sounds right, it has the smell of the dead hand of AT+T's lawyers all over it. (calm down Tim ...) The code in question must be the OLIT widget set, AT+T have been selling source licences for $1000 for some while (we have one), like motif. It sure would be nice if Solbourne would take a similar approach with their OI toolkit and drop the price of source from $10,000 (last I knew) to something reasonable like $1000. Perhaps this will spur them on. Bob Miner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Object Design, Inc. ~ OOOOOO 1 New England Executive Park ~ OOOO OOOO Burlington, MA 01803 USA ~ OOOOO OOOOO bob@odi.com -or- uunet!odi!bob ~ OOOO OOOO voice: (617) 270-9797 FAX: (617) 270-3509 ~ OOOOOO bject Design Inc. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere." - Dr. Seuss ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~