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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: The real OpenWindows source announcement
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Date: 19 Nov 90 15:16:30 GMT
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>Yes, Lotus 1-2-3 is FREE also when you pay $495 for the media.  If
>this media costs SUN $995 I would like to talk to them about
>selling them blank tapes.

The $995 includes *all* the docs and the media costs which include:
X/NeWS manuals, NeWS 2.1 manuals, Xt Intrinsics manuals, OLIT docs,
the two Addison Wesley OPEN LOOK books, the "red" and "blue" Adobe
Postscript books, 3 O'Reilly Books (Vols 1, 2 and 7), and the tape.
Of course in this price, there is an embedded cost of duplication,
ie,  paying people to handle the duplication process, paying people
to box this stuff, paying people to handle shipping these things out and
tracking them, and support (for binary *and now* source) costs. 


Quite frankly (and of course I'm "frank" with everyone ;-),
a one-time cost $995 for an entire (non-reseller) installation 
is certainly inexpensive.

I was told that educational institutions will get it at standard
academic pricing, ie, cheaper.


Perhaps Economics 101 is in order?  I heard they talk about "widgets" too ;->



Frank G.

If you happened to be at the NeWS BOF at Unix Expo in NYC, you
could have obtained all this for free.  Sun donated about 100
sets of the docs and "expensive" media to Open Vistas.
..talk about a feeding frenzy!