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From: thomps@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix - Memory and UUCP questions
Message-ID: <3005@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Sun, 1-Feb-87 12:43:57 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.3005
Posted: Sun Feb  1 12:43:57 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Feb-87 23:36:14 EST
References: <1056@chinet.UUCP> <629@cdx39.UUCP>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: why should he ?

In article <629@cdx39.UUCP>, wegrzyn@cdx39.UUCP (Chuck Wegrzyn) writes:
> 
> Perhaps we can all write
> Email to lauren!vortex and ask him to place is version of UUCP (called UULINK)
> in the public (with the same copyright restrictions and costs as Minix).
> Lauren sells UULINK for MSDOS for $300.00, I believe. 

Why should we expect Lauren to be altruistic. I know from past history it
took him a lot of work to develop a uucp clone without violating AT&T's
copywrites. If he can sell it for $300, not an unreasonable price,
assumming it works. Why should he sell it for less and allow people to
copy it to boot. Lauren developed UULINK to make money. I suspect 
Dr. Tananbaum's goals in developing MINIX were somewhat different. I
also suspect Prentice Hall views the software as a way to increase sales
of the book and that is why they do not have a restrictive liscensing
agreement.

I get tired of people in the micro world always expecting people to give 
them something. It is a market, like any other. People charge what the
traffic will bear. In a capitalistic society, it is unreasonable to expect
them to do otherwise. If you don't like the situation, do something about
it (ala Richard Stallman). Instead of expecting Lauren to give you
a break, write a public domain version yourself.

-- 
Ken Thompson  Phone : (404) 894-7089
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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