Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!linac!uwm.edu!rpi!crdgw1!barnett From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Sun's Free Software Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 15:01:12 GMT References: <901128163929.628@alphalpha> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.ge.com Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 35 In-reply-to: nazgul@alphalpha.COM's message of 28 Nov 90 20:39:29 GMT In article <901128163929.628@alphalpha> nazgul@alphalpha.COM (Kee Hinckley) writes: > I asked this question earlier, but evidently my followup got directed > to a newsgroup I don't read, so I'll ask it again. I asked the same question also. I didn't get an answer either. > The clarification of Sun's offer included a list of requirements for > licensing the software. As I remember it said you could only license > OpenWindows if you > o Had a NeWS license prior to 1987 > o Had a SVR4 license > or a couple of other options. As I remember, none of the > other options were particularly likely. The other two were a SPARC licensee, or else to a non-Unix platform. The questions I want answered are: If I only have a DECstation, HP, or IBM, can I buy the source? If I only have a SPARC and a DECstation, can I buy the source and port it to the DECstation? Is there a fee? If I have a Mac running MacOS, can I buy the source, and then port it to a DECstation? This "Free" software has got to be one of the biggest crock-o'-s*** Sun has every come up with. Maybe the marketeers and PR people invented the phrase. We have come to sad times......... DoubleSpeak is alive and well. -- Bruce G. Barnett barnett@crd.ge.com uunet!crdgw1!barnett