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From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Wet Dream or ...
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.222721.8987@kithrup.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 91 22:27:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr21.141051.19376@pcserver2.naitc.com> kdenning@pcserver2.naitc.com (Karl Denninger) writes:
>Sure, OSF/1 may be "betaware" when it's released, but I will be able 
>to fix the bugs myself -- something I can't do today with the 
>multi-vendor/multi-implementation nightmare that we have right now.

This is not quite true.  First of all, OSF/1 still has AT&T source code in
it; as a result, you need a SysVr3.1 (I think) source code license before
you can get source code.  OSF/2, if/when it comes out, will still not be
cheap:  I suspect the source licensing will be on the order of several tens
of thousands of dollars.

And, of course, you're assuming that SCO will make any changes they make
available at a resonable cost.  This also is not necessarily a true
assumption.

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