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From: john@banzai.PCC.COM (John Canning)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: The KORN SHELL
Keywords: ksh88e licensing
Message-ID: <1991Jan13.200436.14191@banzai.PCC.COM>
Date: 13 Jan 91 20:04:36 GMT
References: <37920@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan12.220430.1078@wa8tzg.mi.org> <37973@cup.portal.com>
Sender: John Canning
Organization: The People's Computer Company
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Someone asked, and then Thad answered:
>
>+ Has anyone ported ksh88e to the 3b1?  [and is it legal to snarf the ksh88e
>+ sources on OSU ??]
>
>WHAT!?!?!?!?!?!?!  If that's on osu-cis, someone's gonna be in deep doo-doo.
>
>ksh88e is a COMMERCIAL PRODUCT of AT&T and costs $3,000 for source and some
>$10,000 for binary (you figure WHY binary costs more than source! :-)
>

The source code for ksh88e costs $3,000.  The right to sell/distribute
the binaries costs $10,000; the source comes with this right.  That is
why the binary seems to cost more than the source.