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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: 19 Dec 90 22:02:33 GMT
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In article <3402@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de> eckert@medusainformatik.uni-erlangen.de (Toerless Eckert) writes:
>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.
[...]
>a reflection of what i've been told. And "No", it seems to be a real
>"handling fee" only, unlike SMI's $995 offer for OpenWindows, as you
>may copy you're new NeXT OS from a friend who has got the media !!

Yes, it's true.  NeXT owners are fortunate enough to receive
updates to NeXTstep and any bundled programs for the cost of
media.  One will pay roughly $200 or so.  Anyone who owns a NeXT
has the right to use all items that are included in Extended
editions (those who bought NeXTstations with the 105MB disk who
can't possibly fit all of NeXTstep 2.0 can, as an option, go to
anyone who has the Extended Edition and copy it on OD, magnetic
disk, or floppy disk, as well as purchase it from NeXT).  Source
code is a separate item and costs roughly $125 from a separate
vendor because most of what's out there is from GNU.  Word has it
that NeXT will make _almost_ all source available: the interface
builder, the Mach kernel, its <Objective-C, C++, and C> compiler,
_but_not_AppKit_ from what I've heard.  I don't know for sure,
since this was from comp.sys.next, but I have doubts about the
Objective-C being included because it's from StepStone.

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.

Ken
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