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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.141955.9082@alphalpha.com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 14:19:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.012555.27802@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> jarober@aplcen (DE Robertson james an 740-9172) writes:
>	Well, I don't really fault Sun for this. SF is charging $1000.00
>for the Motif toolkit - and that's PER toolkit. They also charge a $50.00
>royalty for each application shipped that was built using Motif.  
Where do you get your "facts"?  OSF charges $1000 for a source license, per machine (for
commercial sites, for academic sites I think it's per campus or some such).  That's
pretty cheap for a source license.  I'd rather it were free, but if I'm going to pay
I'd hardly expect to pay less.  The "$50" royalty is $40 max, and again is per
machine and is only for the development environment, with the expectation that it be paid by
the vendor.  And expectation which appears to be true on all major WS platforms except
Sun.  There is no per-application royalty.

>	Contrast this with Sun - OpenWindows (including OLIT and XView
>toolkits) ships with the OS. There is no additional fee for those toolkits 
No additional fee?  Have you tried buying OLIT source lately?  (We won't
even talk about OpenWindows - that's the one you get FREE! when you buy a $1000
doc set and license the source to System V.4.)
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I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.