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From: dastrout@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (root@next1)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Selling Minix as an OS
Message-ID: <5001.28168654@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 12:33:40 GMT
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Let's take a trip into hypothetical-land for a second:

Here's Dave.  He's decided to go into business for himself, selling cheap
*nix boxes.  He builds a 68000 based product, called OldBox(tm).  He buys 
ST Minix, & hacks it to run on his box.  If he buys a copy of Minix from PH 
and sends it with each OldBox(tm) he sells, isn't PH pretty much out of 
luck?  It seems to me it shouldn't matter if how many copies of the Minix 
whatever exist, or even who makes them, as long as PH gets it's $169 for 
each whatever.

-- 
Dave Strout
/* I can remember when MS-DOS was a mere heap of junk instead of a vast 
wasteland -- Stolen & paraphrased */
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