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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Free Updates ? (Was Re: Questions about HPUX 8.0, X11R4, HP policy)
Message-ID: <1060@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 90 03:26:07 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.171742.1309@grep.co.uk> <3402@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> <1990Dec19.220233.22541@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1990Dec19.220233.22541@ecst.csuchico.edu>
	tempest@walleye.UUCP (Kenneth K.F. Lui) writes:
>NeXT is no different from Apple in the sense of distributing the
>operating system for free--essentially; however, Apple makes you
>pay for documentation while NeXT provides it online.

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.

Apple's system software has been available by anonymous FTP
since version 6.0.5 "for free."

					-=EPS=-