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From: jordan@nike.UUCP (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp,net.rumor
Subject: Re: licensing problems
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 23:26:18 EST
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>>Person: "Here's my Sys V licence, signed Berkeley licence (2 copies),
>>and your $$$, can I have a BSD tape please?"
>>
>>Berkeley: "No"
>>
>>Person: "Why?"
>>
>>Berkeley: "Your Sys V licence is for a 68k, not a vax"
>>
>>Person: "But I don't have a Vax, I have a 68K!"
>>
>>Berkeley: "Talk to AT&T...  It will cost you another $48,000"

Rumor has it that AT&T may not offer sysV for anything but their
own hardware in the near future ... it remains unclear as to the effect
on BSD this will have ...

BTW: Lighten up on Berkeley -- their hands are tied.

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Jordan Hayes      Bendix Field Engineering            NASA Ames Research Center
jordan@nasa.gov   *   jordan@ames.arpa   *   {harvard,seismo,topaz}!nike!jordan

[ The above views represent my own and not necessarily those of my employer,
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration or the US Government    ]