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From: riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu (Mark Riordan)
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Subject: Re: Free Updates ? (Was Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy)
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Date: 19 Dec 90 22:15:41 GMT
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In article <3402@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de>, eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) says:
On a demonstration at out university the european director of NeXT told
>us, that software updates of NeXT's operating system are for free except
>for handling charges for a lifetime of every NeXT system that you buy.
>Is this really true ?

My NeXT salesman told me (in October) that there is indeed a license fee for 
the 1.0 -> 2.0 upgrade, not just a media fee.  Something to do with additional
royalties to AT&T.  But the upgrade is priced at $195 list for license + optical
disk media.  That's about the cost of just an optical, so I wonder if he was wrong.
Anyway, the salesman said that he would look into a deal to unbundle the
license fee part, since we really don't need all those copies of the optical.

Mark Riordan    Michigan State Univ.    riordanmr@clvax1.cl.msu.edu