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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: No GNUs is good news
Message-ID: <72@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Oct-83 02:04:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 21 02:04:06 1983
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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For about $900 an educational institution can get a source license for 4.x BSD
on the VAX.  I am not sure now but when I checked a year ago the USG versions
were of the same order.  The Unix ports to microprocessors (Unisoft, for
example) are all binary licenses, for source one pays through the nose.  I am
unhappy about this situation and would support an effort like GNU to bring
source back to these microprocessors.
 Bill Sebok	Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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