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From: tempest@walleye.uucp (Kenneth K.F. Lui)
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Subject: Re: Free Updates ? (Was Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy)
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Date: 20 Dec 90 05:53:48 GMT
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In article <1060@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>NeXT is charging us $65 per "old" machine as a license fee
>("right to copy") to upgrade from 1.0a to 2.0--they wouldn't let
>us order one copy of the media, we had to order N-1 additional
>licenses.
>
Ack, I didn't know about this license fee.  Another poster in
this thread said it was for AT&T stuff.  If this is the case,
does it mean some AT&T tools are included...like ksh?

>Apple's system software has been available by anonymous FTP
>since version 6.0.5 "for free."
>
Even before 6.0.5, people could go into "reasonable Apple
dealers" and get a copy of the new system software on disk.
Dealers don't provide disks unless you pay for them, of course.

Ken

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